The Short Life and Long Times of Mrs. Beeton: The First Domestic Goddess by Kathryn Hughes

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

Kathryn Hughes

496 pages • first pub 2005 (editions)

nonfiction biography history informative slow-paced
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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 Hu...

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