Ebook: Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management:

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 Europeand beyond, actively embracing new foodstuffs and techniques, mixing domestic advice with discussions of science, religion.;Cover; Contents; Introduction; Note on the Text; Select Bibliography; A Chronology of Isabella Beeton; MRS BEETON'S BOOK OF HOUSEHOLD MANAGEMENT; Explanatory Notes; Index.