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作       者:Kathryn Hughes

出  版  社:Harper Perennial

出版时间:2013-07-25

字       数:95.9万

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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. In Victorian England what did every middle-class 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’. The 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 were indispensable in the moulding 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 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 lifestyle.
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Cover

Title Page

Dedication

Family Trees

Contents

Prologue: ‘A Tub-Like Lady in Black’

Chapter One: ‘Heavy, Cold and Wet Soil’

Interlude

Chapter Two: ‘Chablis to Oysters’

Interlude

Chapter Three: ‘Paper Without End’

Interlude

Chapter Four: ‘The Entire Management of Me’

Interlude

Chapter Five: ‘Crockery and Carpets’

Interlude

Chapter Six: ‘A Most Agreeable Mélange’

Interlude

Chapter Seven: ‘Dine We Must’

Interlude

Chapter Eight: ‘The Alpha and The Omega’

Interlude

Chapter Nine: ‘Perfect Fashion and Elegance’

Interlude

Chapter Ten: ‘Her Hand Has Lost Its Cunning’

Interlude

Chapter Eleven: ‘Spinnings About Town’

Interlude

Chapter Twelve: ‘The Best Cookery Book in the World’

Interlude

Chapter Thirteen: ‘A Beetonian Reverie’

Notes and Sources

Select Bibliography

Index

Acknowledgements

P.S.

About the Author

Q and A with Kathryn Hughes

Life at a Glance

A Writing Life

Top Ten Favourite Books

About the Book

On the Beeton Track by Kathryn Hughes

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