"Although not widely known outside of Britain, Mrs. Isabella Beeton can best be described as Victorian England's equivalent to Martha Stewart. Mrs. Beeton's massive Book of Household Management, published in 1861, offered its readers no-nonsense, practical advice on all aspects of housekeeping, cooking, child care, dealing with one's servants, managing one's poultry, and the ins and outs of properly addressing dinner invitations. Of paramount importance in learning to run one's Victorian home like a well-oiled machine, and second only to the Virtues of Cleanliness and Rising Early, were the twin Virtues of Economy and Frugality." taken from www.knitty.com (the best knitting website out there - with great free patterns)
This Book of Household Management sounded very interesting to me, so i googled it and found it published on line : http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/b/beeton/isabella/household/
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