Isabella Beeton's Book of Household Management was published as a bound volume on 1 October 1861, after serialization in monthly installments from 1859. It covered cookery, servants' duties, child care, medicine and household law, growing to nearly 4,000 recipes by 1906, and sold close to two million copies by 1868, becoming the standard English domestic manual of the Victorian era. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Milestone Year WhenFirst serialised in 24 monthly instalments from 1859 in The Englishwoman's Domestic Magazine before being collected into one bound volume on 1 October 1861. 1 Connections
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On 1 October 1861, the instalments were collected into one volume with the title The Book of Household Management
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It was initially serialised in 24 monthly instalments, in her husband Samuel Orchart Beeton's publication The Englishwoman's Domestic Magazine; the first instalment appeared in 1859.
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Mrs. Beeton has been for over a century the standard English cookbook, frequently outselling every other book but the Bible.
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