The Short Life and Long Times of Mrs Beeton
Author(s): Kathryn Hughes
Kathryn Hughes reveals here that Bella Beaton was a million miles away from the stoical, middle-aged 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. She lived in a semi-detached house in Pinner with the bare minimum of servants. She bordered on being a workaholic, and certainly wasn't 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.
Product Information
/ Lead title We each of us strive for domestic bliss, and we may look to Delia and Nigella to give us tips on achieving the unattainable. Kathryn Hughes, acclaimed for her biography of George Eliot, has pulled back the curtains to look at the creator of the ultimate book on keeping house. / A major biography of one of our most important modern icons. / Hughes is highly visible writer whose reviews appear weekly in the Guardian Review.
Kathryn Hughes is the author of 'The Victorian Governess' and the hugely acclaimed 'George Eliot: The Last Victorian'. Educated at Oxford University, she holds a PhD in Victorian studies. She is a visiting lecturer at several British universities and reviews regularly for the Daily Telegraph and the Literary Review.
General Fields
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- : HarperCollins Publishers
- : HarperPerennial
- : July 2006
- : United Kingdom
- : books
Special Fields
- : Kathryn Hughes
- : Paperback
- : 640.92
- : 512
- : Home & house maintenance; Biography & autobiography: historical, political & military
- : illustrations
