Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management

''As with the commander of an army, or the leader of any enterprise, so it is with the mistress of a house.''A founding text of Victorian middle-class identity, Household Management is today one of the great unread classics. Over a thousand pages long, and written when its author was only 22, it offered highly authoritative advice on subjects as diverse as fashion, child-care, animal husbandry, p...