Mrs. Beeton's Cookery Book and Household Guide

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Original green cloth boards with decorative design and small gilt motifs to the front, gilt titles and vignette to the spine. Gilt titles + circular vignettes front alslo black oval and ribbon decoration, but difficult to see! A few penned rings around a recipe and occasional pencil note and some occasional foxing but most pages in good, clean condition.

His hubris in business affairs brought on financial difficulties and in early 1862 the couple had moved from their comfortable Pinner house to premises over their office. On the death certificate, the cause of death was given as diarrhoea and cholera, although Hughes hypothesises that Samuel senior had unknowingly contracted syphilis in a premarital liaison with a prostitute, and had unwittingly passed the condition on to his wife, which would have infected his son. Beeton, a 1934 comedy in which Samuel was portrayed in an unflattering light, [m] and Mrs Beeton, a 1937 documentary, [n] Mayston Beeton worked with H.

The remainder provided advice on fashion, child care, animal husbandry, poisons, the management of servants, science, religion, first aid and the importance in the use of local and seasonal produce. While coping with the loss of her child, Beeton continued to work at The Englishwoman's Domestic Magazine. Beeton was working on an abridged version of her book, which was to be titled The Dictionary of Every-Day Cookery, when she died of puerperal fever in February 1865 at the age of 28.

original grey boards worn and marked, red cloth back elaborately blocked with gilt lettering creased. In copying the recipes of others, Beeton was following the recommendation given to her by Henrietta English, a family friend, who wrote that "Cookery is a Science that is only learnt by Long Experience and years of study which of course you have not had. The cause of death was given as "apoplexy" which, Hughes notes, was the term used to cover a range of ailments including alcoholism, syphilis, stroke and heart attack.Isabella went to live with her recently widowed paternal grandfather in Great Orton, Cumberland, though she was back with her mother within the next two years. j] In March 1863 Beeton found that she was pregnant again, and in April the couple moved to a house in Greenhithe, Kent; their son, who they named Orchart, was born on New Year's Eve 1863. young ladies knew nothing of domestic arrangements, no better book than this could have been devised for them. Samuel was "a discreet but firm believer in the equality of women" [23] and their relationship, both personal and professional, was an equal partnership. Dickson Wright considers Beeton to be a "fascinating source of information" from a social history viewpoint, [100] and Aylett and Ordish consider the work to be "the best and most reliable guide for the scholar to the domestic history of the mid-Victorian era".