BEETON] HUGHES, Kathryn: Short Life and Long Times of Mrs. Beeton, The

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BEETON] HUGHES, Kathryn : Short Life and Long Times of Mrs. Beeton, The

Knopf, NY, 2005

ISBN 0307263738

Basis for the film "The Secret Life of Mrs. Beeton". ; Spine ends bumped, one corner bumped revealing boards, a few page edges creased; pages clean and bright, no binding problems. Cream unclipped dust wrapper very lightly soiled, faint edgewear. A nice copy.; "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.", 480 pages, Very Good in Very Good+ dust wrapper. Illustr: B&W Illustrations

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