Food History

The Book of Household Management

by Isabella Beeton

Isabella Beeton was twenty-five when this came out as one book in 1861, after appearing in monthly parts published by her husband. Its thousand-odd pages cover servants, the law and the sickroom as well as cookery, and many of its recipes came from other writers, Eliza Acton among them. She died at twenty-eight, and her name sold cookbooks for a century after.

The librarian

Read it in the Library After Dark Or read it as plain text

Reading time

About 33 hr 45 min

Where to find it

On the Food History shelves

Edition

Project Gutenberg, eBook #10136. In the public domain in the United States.