Nicola Humble

Standard Name: Humble, Nicola

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Literary responses Isabella Beeton
Humble argues that the book is a revealing cultural artefact that allows us to discern in its jumble of competing discourses some of the central concerns of the Victorian era, including the competition between science...
Reception Isabella Beeton
Scholar Nicola Humble argues that the book in large part created the new cult of domesticity that was to play such a major role in mid-Victorian life.
Beeton, Isabella. “Introduction”. Mrs Beeton’s Book of Household Management, edited by Nicola Humble, Abridged, Oxford University Press, 2000, p. vii - xxxvii.
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She sees it as the feminised counterpart...
Textual Features Isabella Beeton
As it turned out, however, most of the recipes and information in the book came from published sources, though two popular cookery books directed at the middle classes, Hannah Glasse 's The Art of Cookery...

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Texts

Beeton, Isabella. “Introduction”. Mrs Beeton’s Book of Household Management, edited by Nicola Humble, Abridged, Oxford University Press, 2000, p. vii - xxxvii.
Beeton, Isabella. Mrs Beeton’s Book of Household Management. Editor Humble, Nicola, Abridged, Oxford University Press, 2000.
Humble, Nicola. “The ice inside”. Times Literary Supplement, p. 24.