MRS BEETON'S BOOK OF HOUSEHOLD MANAGEMENT by Beeton, Mrs. ISBN 0192833456
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Alternately fashionable and frugal, anxious and self-confident, this text highlights the concerns of a Victorian middle-class at a key point in its history. This edition suggests ways of approaching this massive, hybrid text as a significant document of social and cultural history.
'As with the commander of an army, or the leader of any enterprise, so it is with the mistress of a house.' A founding text of Victorian middle-class identity, 'Household Management' is today one of the great unread classics. Over a thousand pages long, and written when its author was only 22, it offered highly authoritative advice on subjects as diverse as fashion, child-care, animal husbandry, poisons, and the management of servants. To the modern reader expecting stuffy moralizing and watery vegetables, Beeton's book is a revelation: it ranges widely across the foods of Europe and beyond, actively embracing new food stuffs and techniques, mixing domestic advice with discussions of science, religion, class, industrialism and gender roles. Alternately fashionable and frugal, anxious and blusteringly self-confident, 'Household Management' highlights the concerns of the ever-expanding Victorian middle-class at a key moment in its history. This abridged edition does justice to its high status as a cookery book, while also suggesting ways of approaching this massive, hybrid text as a significant document of social and cultural history.
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[edit] Title
MRS BEETON'S BOOK OF HOUSEHOLD MANAGEMENT
[edit] Author
Beeton, Mrs.
[edit] ISBN
0192833456
[edit] Published
16/03/2000
[edit] Publisher
Oxford University Press
[edit] Binding
paperback
[edit] Retail Price
8.99 (GBP)
[edit] Typical Price Online
8.09 (GBP)
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