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English Housewife by Gervase Markham and Michael R. Best (1994, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherMcGill-Queen's University Press
ISBN-100773511032
ISBN-139780773511033
eBay Product ID (ePID)689709
Product Key Features
Number of Pages384 Pages
Publication NameEnglish Housewife
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year1994
SubjectWomen, General, Women's Studies, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaLiterary Criticism, Social Science, History
AuthorGervase Markham, Michael R. Best
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height1.4 in
Item Weight20.9 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceCollege Audience
Reviews"[The English Housewife] comes as close to a reconstruction of early modern English home life as scholars are likely to attain .... A splendid addition to the knowledge of early-17th-century life and labor." G.M. Straka, Choice.
TitleLeadingThe
IllustratedYes
SynopsisIn 1615 Englishman Gervase Markham published a handbook for housewives containing "all the virtuous knowledges and actions both of the mind and body, which ought to be in any complete housewife.", Markham reveals the "pretty and curious secrets" of preparing everything from simple foods to such elaborate meals as a "humble feast" - an undertaking which entails preparing "no less than two and thirty dishes, which is as much as can stand on one table." He instructs the housewife on brewing beer and caring for wine, growing flax and hemp for thread, and spinning and dyeing. As a housewife was also responsible for the health and "soundness of body" of her family, he includes advice on the prevention of everything from the plague to baldness and bad breath. No other source from this period provides the same richness of information in such a readable style. Michael Best's introduction and his abundant notes make The English Housewife readily accessible to the contemporary reader.
