Complete Indian Housekeeper and Cook

Zusatztext 'fascinating! immensely detailed...a priceless insight into the mindset and even the character of those women out there!imposing their will and their ways amid the "alien corn" surrounding them.' Informationen zum Autor Both authors were married to members of the Indian Civil Service and lived and travelled in India with their families for more than two decades. The senior partner, Flora Annie Steel took a strong interest in Indian life, learned to speak, read, and write Punjabi and committed to improving the lives of the local native women. She helped to establish schools and served on the Provincial Education Board. She also wrote stories for children and novels including her best-known novel on the Indian Mutiny, On the Face of the Waters. Klappentext In The Complete Indian Housekeeper and Cook (1888), Flora Annie Steel and her co-author Grace Gardiner give practical and highly opinionated advice to young memsahibs in India. Covering all aspects of household management from the duties of servants to recipes, the manual sheds fascinating light on the entire imperial experience. Zusammenfassung In The Complete Indian Housekeeper and Cook (1888), Flora Annie Steel and her co-author Grace Gardiner give practical and highly opinionated advice to young memsahibs in India. Covering all aspects of household management from the duties of servants to recipes, the manual sheds fascinating light on the entire imperial experience.

Product details

• Authors: Ralph Crane, Grace Gardiner, Flora Annie Steel, Flora Annie Gardiner Steel, Steel Flora Annie
• Assisted by: Ralph Crane (Editor), Ralph (Professor of English Crane (Editor), Crane Ralph (Editor), Anna Johnston (Editor), Anna (Queen Elizabeth II Research Fellow in English Johnston (Editor), Johnston Anna (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press Trade
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.10.2011
• EAN: 9780199605767
• ISBN: 978-0-19-960576-7
• Series: World's classics; World's classics; Oxford World's Classics; World's classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, HOUSE & HOME / Reference, India, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Social and cultural history, Asian History, Household hints, Household management and home hints, Nostalgia: general, HISTORY / Asia / South / India