The Short Life & Long Times of Mrs. Beeton,Used

The Short Life & Long Times of Mrs. Beeton,Used

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We each of us strive for domestic bliss the perfect marriage, the perfect home, the perfect family and we may look to Elle Deco, Delia and Nigella to give us tips on achieving the unattainable. Kathryn Hughes has pulled back the curtains to look at Mrs Beeton, the creator of the ultimate book on keeping house. In Victorian England what did every middleclass housewife need to create the perfect home? The Book of Household Management. "Oh, but of course!" Mrs Beeton would no doubt declare with brisk authority. But Mrs Beeton, is not quite the matronly figure that has kept her name resonating 150 years after the publication of The Book of Household Management. Those famous pages of carefully costed recipes, warnings about not gossiping to visitors, and making sure you always keep your hat on in someone else's house indispensible in the molding of the Victorian domestic bliss. But there are many myths surrounding the legend of Mrs Beeton. It is very possible that her book was given so much social standing through fear as she was believed to be a bit of an old dragon. It seems though that Mrs Beeton was a series of contradictions.Kathryn Hughes reveals here that Bella Beeton was actually a million miles away from the stoical, middleaged matron. She was in fact only 25 years old when she created the guide to successful family living and had only had five years experience of her own to inform her. Sadly, two of her children died. She lived in a semidetached house in Pinner with the bare minimum of servants. She bordered on being a workaholic. Not the meek and mild little wife that her book was aimed at more a highly intelligent and ambitious young woman. After preaching about wholesome and clean living, Bella Beeton died at the age of 28 from (contrary to her parent's belief) bad hygiene. Kathryn Hughes sympathetically explores the irony behind Bella Beeton's public and private image in this highly readable and informative study of Victorian life style.

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