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The English housewife / Gervase Markham ; edited by Michael R. Best.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Home economics--Early works to 1800.
- Home economics.
- Cooking, English--Early works to 1800.
- Cooking, English.
- Medicine, Popular--Early works to 1800.
- Medicine, Popular.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (321 pages) : illustrations
- Place of Publication:
- Kingston, Ont. : McGill-Queen's University Press, 1986.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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."
- Notes:
- Includes bibliography (p. [291]-296) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-7735-6125-0
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