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The Short Life and Long Times of Mrs Beeton by Kathryn Hughes
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Kathryn Hughes reveals here that Bella Beaton was a million miles away from the stoical, middle-aged matron. She was in fact only 25 years old when she created the guide to successful family living and had only had five years experience of her own to inform her. She lived in a semi-detached house in Pin ...Show more
Victorians Undone: Tales of the Flesh in the Age of Decorum by Kathryn Hughes
$49.99 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks | Reading Level: very good
A groundbreaking account of what it was like to live in a Victorian body from one of our best historians, author of The Short Life and Long Times of Mrs Beeton and George Eliot: The Last Victorian. Why did the great philosophical novelist George Eliot feel so self-conscious that her right hand was larg ...Show more
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