Victorian Household Management (ES 5-vol. set)

The nineteenth century saw a dramatic increase in the number of manuals of cookery and household management published in Britain, with such books becoming a significant part of the publishing industry, the mainstay of many an entrepreneurial publisher’s list. The most famous is Beeton’s Book of Household Management (1861), but many other such manuals appeared in this century, particularly in the period from the 1840s to the 1880s. This facsimile collection of six household and cookery manuals published in mid-Victorian Britain, will be an extremely valuable source for those studying Victorian life and the culture and history of women.

VOL. 1: (c.710 p.) Acton, Eliza Modern Cookery, for Private Families, 1845; revised and enlarged edition, London: Longman, 1861, 710 p. VOL. 2: (c.344 p.) Philp, Robert Kemp The Practical Housewife, forming a Complete Encyclopaedia of Domestic Economy London: Ward & Lock, 1855, 236 p. Balfour, Clara Lucas Homely Hints on Household Management London: S.W. Partridge, [1866], 108 p. VOL. 3: (c.464 p.) Philp, Robert Kemp Consult me to know how to cook…consult me on Confectionery..on Household Management / The Book that Every Family Needs Wakefield: William Nicholson & Sons, [1866], 464 p. VOL. 4: (c.356 p.) Philp, Robert Kemp The Housewife's Reason Why: affording to the Manager of Household Affairs… London: Houlston & Wright, 1857, 356 p. VOL. 5: (c.552 p.) Southgate, Henry Things a Lady would like to know concerning Domestic Management and Expenditure 1874; London: W.P. Nimmo, 1875, 552 p.

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