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Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management
Abridged edition
Isabella Beeton
Edited by Nicola Humble
672 pages
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illustrations
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196x129mm
978-0-19-953633-7
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Paperback
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12 June 2008
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- A key text of domestic Industrial age history and a force in shaping Victorian middle-class identity
- This edition analyses and connects issues of social, cultural and intellectual context
'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.
The 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.
ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship,
providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.Readership: Undergraduate and postgraduate courses in Victorian Literature, women writers, Cultural Studies, Victorian History, Food Science and Consumer Science.
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Isabella Beeton Edited by Nicola Humble, Senior Lecturer, Roehampton Institute, London
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"The recipes are excellent and there are all sorts of tips that help me save money, time and temper." - Sandi Toksvig, Daily Express "sold out in Central London book shops within weeks" - Red, August 2000
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