The short life and long times of Mrs. Beeton - Kathryn Hughes
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KORTE INHOUD
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 Hughes pulls back the lace curtains to reveal the woman behind the book--Mrs. Beeton, the first domestic diva of the modern age--and explores the life of the book itself.
Isabella Beeton was a twenty-one-year-old newlywed with only six months’ experience running her o...
Isabella Beeton was a twenty-one-year-old newlywed with only six months’ experience running her o...

