Table Decorations

The book best known as Mrs Beeton’s Book of Household Management, also published as Mrs Beeton’s Cookery Book, is an extensive guide to running a... more

by Mrs Beeton

Title

Table Decorations

Artist

Mrs Beeton

Medium

Drawing - Illustration

Description

The book best known as Mrs Beeton’s Book of Household Management, also published as Mrs Beeton’s Cookery Book, is an extensive guide to running a household in Victorian Britain, edited by Isabella Beeton and first published as a book in 1861. Published by her husband, Samuel Beeton. It was illustrated with many monochrome and color plates.

Although Mrs Beeton died in 1865, the book continued to be a best-seller. The first editions after her death contained an obituary notice, but later editions did not, allowing readers to imagine that every word was written by an experienced Mrs Beeton personally. The personal significance of a “Mrs Beeton” found expression in one of Arthur Conan Doyle’s novels of 1899, where a character declares: “Mrs Beeton must have been the finest housekeeper in the world, therefore Mr. Beeton must have been the happiest and most comfortable man”

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May 14th, 2021