Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management Abridged Edition
Binding: Paperback
Date Published: 2008-06-12
Authors: Isabella Beeton
'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.
ISBN-13: 9780199536337
ISBN-10: 0199536333
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Language: English
Subjects: Cooking, Fiction, Classics, Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology, History, Social History, House & Home, Cleaning, Caretaking & Organizing, Social Science, Women's Studies
Edition: Abridged
Pages: 672
Dimensions: 19.05 x 4.83 x 12.7 cm
Weight: 0.487 kg
