The Mrs Beeton of British India, Flora Annie Steel and her companion Grace Gardiner's book of household management for memsahibs offers a fascinating insight into the daily life of Anglo-Indians and their servants under the Raj. The most thorough and entertaining guide to the duties of mistress and servant, including advice on the storeroom, accounts, meals, gardening, camp life, clothing, cookery and recipes. Practical advice is tempered with personal anecdotes and glimpses into the lives of two remarkable memsahibs in the 1880s and 1890s. Lively Introduction looks at Steel's life and writings and other imperial manuals and books on cooking and empire, and illuminates the connections which the book makes explicit between running a domestic household in India and running the British Empire. Notes provide an invaluable reading guide to the manual, detailing elements from the late nineteenth-century pharmacopeia, the kitchen, and the laundry cupboard alongside geographical, historical, and political facts peculiar to British India and the Empire. Includes glossary of Indian terms.
- ISBN: 978-0-19-955014-2
- Editorial: Oxford University
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 400
- Fecha Publicación: 31/03/2010
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés