| Edition |
Abridged ed. |
| Description |
1 online resource (xxxvii, 629 pages) : illustrations. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Oxford world's classics
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Oxford world's classics (Oxford University Press)
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| Summary |
"A founding text of Victorian middle-class identity, Household Management is today one of the great unread classics. 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." "This 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."--Jacket. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Home economics.
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Home economics. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Humble, Nicola.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Beeton, Mrs. (Isabella Mary), 1836-1865. Mrs Beeton's book of household management. Abridged ed. New York : Oxford University Press, 2000 0192833456 (DLC) 99054236 (OCoLC)42866128 |
| ISBN |
9780191560286 (electronic book) |
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0191560286 (electronic book) |
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0192833456 |
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9780192833457 |
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