Good evening and thank you for joining me for another boring books for bedtime.

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Tonight we're returning once more to one of your favorites and mine,

The Book of Household Management, comprising information for the mistress, housekeeper, cook, kitchen maid, butler, footman, coachman,

valet, upper and under housemaids, ladies maid, made of all work, laundry maid, nurse and nursemaid,

monthly wet and sick nurses, etc, etc.

Also sanitary, medical and legal memoranda,

with a history of the origin, properties, and uses of all things connected

with home life and comfort by Mrs Isabella Beaton,

published originally by S.O. beaten in 24 monthly parts,

1859 to 1861, first published in a bound edition in 1861.

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