Buy this book on-line BEETON] HUGHES, Kathryn : Short Life and Long Times of Mrs. Beeton, TheKnopf, 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 Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of BEETON] HUGHES, Kathryn : Short Life and Long Times of Mrs. Beeton, The. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. Bibliophile Bookbase lists over 5 million books, maps and prints including fine bindings, rare books, livres d'occasion, out-of-print books and livres anciens. Bibliophile Bookbase for antiquarian books, maps and prints. |