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Record Nr.

UNINA9910791462703321

Autore

Markham Gervase <1568?-1637.>

Titolo

The English housewife / / Gervase Markham ; edited by Michael R. Best

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Kingston, Ont. : , : McGill-Queen's University Press, , 1986

ISBN

0-7735-6125-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (321 pages) : illustrations

Altri autori (Persone)

BestMichael R

Disciplina

640/.941

Soggetti

Home economics - Early works to 1800

Cooking, English

Medicine, Popular

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliography (p. [291]-296) and index.

Sommario/riassunto

In 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."