Short Life and Long Times of Mrs. Beeton The First Domestic Goddess

Name: Short Life and Long Times of Mrs. Beeton The First Domestic Goddess
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ISBN: 9780307278661

ISBN-10: 0307278662

ISBN-13: 9780307278661

Edition: N/A

Authors: Kathryn Hughes

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In Victorian England there was only one fail-safe authority on matters ranging from fashion to puddings to scullery maids:Beeton's Book of Household Management. In this delightful, superbly researched biography, award-winning historian Kathryn Hughes pulls back the lace curtains to reveal the woman behind the book--Mrs. Beeton, the first domestic diva of the modern age--and explores the life of the book itself. Isabella Beeton was a twenty-one-year-old newlywed with only six months' experience running her own home when--coaxed by her husband, a struggling publisher--she began to compile her book of recipes and domestic advice. The aspiring mother hardly suspected that her name would become…

Book details

List price: $18.95
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 5/8/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 496
Size: 5.21" wide x 7.95" long x 1.29" tall
Weight: 0.814
Language: English