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Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management

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Victorian guide to comprehensive household management.

If you're intrigued by history and domesticity, Isabella Beeton's guide is a delightful dive into Victorian middle-class life. Though it might strike you as a simple cookery book at first, it's also a cultural artifact that paints a vivid picture of the social norms, culinary preferences, and gender roles of the time. It's an insightful read that combines practical advice with a rich historical context—perfect for anyone with a culinary or historical bent.

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Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management

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ISBN: 9780199536337
Authors: Isabella Beeton
Date of Publication: 2008-08-01
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Food & Drink, History
Goodreads rating: 3.83
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An almost forgotten classic though a founding text of Victorian middle-class identity, Mrs. Beeton's Book of Household Management is a volume of insight and common sense. Written by what one might now describe as a Victorian Martha Stewart, the book offers advice on fashion, child-care, animal husbandry, poisons, and the management of servants. To the modern reader expecting stuffy verbosity or heavy moralizing, Beeton's book explores the foods of Europe and beyond, suggesting new foodstuffs and techniques, mixing domestic advice with discussions of science, religion, class, industrialism, and gender roles. Alternately frugal and fashionable, anxious and self-confident, the book highlights the concerns of the growing Victorian middle-class at a key moment in its history. This abridged edition serves as a cookery book while documenting a significant aspect of Victorian social and cultural history.
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Victorian guide to comprehensive household management.

If you're intrigued by history and domesticity, Isabella Beeton's guide is a delightful dive into Victorian middle-class life. Though it might strike you as a simple cookery book at first, it's also a cultural artifact that paints a vivid picture of the social norms, culinary preferences, and gender roles of the time. It's an insightful read that combines practical advice with a rich historical context—perfect for anyone with a culinary or historical bent.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.