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Excerpt from Beeton's Housewife's Treasury of Domestic Information: Comprising Complete and Practical Instructions on the House and Its Furniture, Artistic Decoration, Economy, Toilet, Children, Etiquette, Domestic and Fancy Needlework, Dressmaking and Millinery, and All Other Household MattersThe present work aims at making home the abode of comfort, elegance, and happiness and'it will be found to contain countless directions on matters about...

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Isabella Mary Beeton (née Mayson, 1836-1865), universally known as Mrs. Beeton, was the principal author of Mrs. Beeton's Book of Household Management and is the most famous cookery writer in British history. On a visit to London, she was introduced to Samuel Orchard Beeton, a publisher of books and popular magazines, whom she married on 10 July 1856. She began to write articles on cooking and household management for her husband's publication...

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 has gone into the lore of domestic management as the titular goddess of house and hearth. In many ways she was typical of the supreme self confidence and staggering versatility of the High Victorian era, a period which saw the apex of the British Empire, and men and women w...