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Isabella Beeton
A seasonal guide to Victorian baking.
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This almost forgotten classic text of Victorian middle-class identity offers advice on fashion, child-care, animal husbandry, poisons, and the management of servants. Alternatively frugal and fashionable, this book highlights the…
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Mrs Beeton reigned supreme among the writers of domestic manuals in the Victorian era. Much more than just a cookery book, or even a guide to household management, her Book…
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This vintage book contains a comprehensive handbook on farm crops, being an encyclopedia of common crops with information on cultivation, history, varieties, land preparation, weeding, propagation, pests and diseases, harrowing…
This vintage book contains a complete guide to trees and their management, with information on growing and maintaining a variety of trees in many different situations. Profusely illustrated and full…
This vintage book contains a detailed treatise on farming and farm management, being a guide to every aspect of farming from design and construction to drainage and irrigation. Although old…
Mrs. Beeton’s Book of Household Management is many things, but it is first and foremost a guide to managing a household. In addition to offering advice on a wide range…
A detailed guide to gardening, including historical information, planting, pruning, types of plants and flowers, tools, furniture, and more.
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The definitive guide to embroidery, from the most famous household writer of the Victorian period.
Mrs, Isabella Beeton
Mrs Beeton was the Jamie Oliver, Gordon Ramsay and Martha Stewart of the Nineteenth Century, all rolled into one! She was the homemaker and cook par excellence and her name…
Originally published as twenty-four newspaper columns from 1859 to 1861, Mrs. Beeton’s Book of Household Management is many things, but it is first and foremost a guide to managing a…
Isabella Mary Beeton
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
This work is in the "public…
Isabella Beeton is best known for her groundbreaking work The Book of Household Management, but she also wrote extensively on child-rearing and health. This volume, published in 1878, is a…
She was the 19th century’s Martha Stewart, and she is responsible for organizing the rules of domestic life into the first easy-to-follow guide. British writer ISABELLA MARY BEETON (1836-1865) caused…
Mrs Beeton’s classic book of needlework. This is the complete fully illustrated edition.
All about cookery - a collection of practical recipes, arranged in alphabetical order and fully illustrated is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1887. Hansebooks is editor…
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
This work is in the public…
