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Article: The Victorian Martha Stewart.(The Short Life and Long Times of Mrs. Beeton: The First Domestic Goddess )(Book review)
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- The Women's Review of Books
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- May 1, 2007
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The Short Life and Long Times of Mrs. Beeton: The First Domestic Goddess
By Kathryn Hughes
New York: Knopf, 2006, 480 pp., $29.95, hardcover
In January of 1865, things were looking up for 28-year-old Isabella Beeton. Married to Sam Beeton, a prolific publisher of magazines and books in Victorian London, Isabella was eagerly expecting a baby--the second of two healthy sons she would produce after losing two earlier children in infancy. As her husband's tireless collaborator, Isabella was working fulltime as a journalist, and had achieved fame as the editor of Britain's best-selling cookbook and domestic advice manual, Mrs. Beeton's Book of ...