Mrs. (Isabella Mary) Beeton

Mrs. (Isabella Mary) Beeton
Isabella Mary Beeton was a British author best known for her influential work "Mrs. Beeton's Book of Household Management," first published in 1861. Her book became a comprehensive guide on domestic life, covering cooking, household management, child care, and more, making her a key figure in Victorian-era home economics. Though she passed away at the young age of 28, her book remained widely popular and was reprinted many times. Despite her short life, Beeton's name became synonymous with practical, efficient home management.

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CHAPTER I. THE MISTRESS. "Strength, and honour are her clothing; and she shall rejoice in time to come. She openeth her mouth with wisdom; and in her tongue is the law of kindness. She looketh well to the ways of her household; and eateth not the bread of idleness. Her children arise up, and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praiseth her."—Proverbs, xxxi. 25-28. I. AS WITH... more...

TATTING INSTRUCTIONS The needlework called Tatting in England, Frivolité in French, and Frivolitäten in German, is a work which seems, from all accounts, to have been in favour several generations ago. Modern ingenuity has discovered some ways of improving on the original plan of tatting, which was, indeed, rather a primitive sort of business as first practised. To Mrs. Mee, one of our most... more...