Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management: Abridged edition

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Isabella Beeton Nicola Humble (Senior Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, Roehampton Institute, London)

Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management

Abridged edition

Isabella Beeton, Nicola Humble (Senior Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, Roehampton Institute, London)

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Oxford University Press
12 June 2008

Social & cultural history; Gender studies: women; Health & Self-Help; Travel & Lifestyle; Cookery, food & drink

Series: Oxford World's Classics

'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.

By: Isabella Beeton
Edited by: Nicola Humble (Senior Lecturer Senior Lecturer Roehampton Institute London)
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: Abridged edition
Dimensions: Height: 196mm, Width: 128mm, Spine: 44mm
Weight: 487g
ISBN: 9780199536337
ISBN 10: 0199536333
Series: Oxford World's Classics
Pages: 672
Publication Date: 12 June 2008
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active