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Автор: Kathryn Hughes
Издательство: HarperCollins
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isbn: 9780007380374
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      KATHRYN HUGHES

       The Short Life & Long Times of Mrs Beeton

       DEDICATION

       For my parents, Anne and John HughesAgain, again

       FAMILY TREES

      CONTENTS

       Cover

       Title Page

       INTERLUDE

       CHAPTER SIX: ‘A Most Agreeable Mélange’

       INTERLUDE

       CHAPTER SEVEN: ‘Dine We Must’

       INTERLUDE

       CHAPTER EIGHT: ‘The Alpha and the Omega’

       INTERLUDE

       CHAPTER NINE: ‘Perfect Fashion and Elegance’

       INTERLUDE

       CHAPTER TEN: ‘Her Hand Has Lost Its Cunning’

       INTERLUDE

       CHAPTER ELEVEN: ‘Spinnings About Town’

       INTERLUDE

       CHAPTER TWELVE: ‘The Best Cookery Book in the World’

       INTERLUDE

       CHAPTER THIRTEEN: ‘A Beetonian Reverie’

       NOTES AND SOURCES

       SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY

       INDEX

       ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

       P.S.

       About the Author

       Q and A with Kathryn Hughes

       Life at a Glance

       A Writing Life

       Top Ten Favourite Books

       About the Book

       On the Beeton Track by Kathryn Hughes

       Read on

       Have You Read?

       If You Loved This, You Might Like …

       Find Out More

       About the Author

       Praise

       Also by the Author

       Copyright

       About the Publisher

       PROLOGUE ‘A Tub-Like Lady in Black’

      ON BOXING DAY 1932 the National Portrait Gallery opened an exhibition of its new acquisitions to the public. There were twenty-three likenesses on display, all of which were to be added to the nation’s permanent portrait collection of the great and the good. Cecil Rhodes, ‘South African Statesman,