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Byline: Bess Rattray
Long before Martha Stewart, a striving young English-woman named Isabella Beeton burst from the shadows of the Victorian pantry to become world famous as a dispenser of advice on household management in all its vagaries, from recipes ("Useful Soup for Benevolent Purposes") and menu-planning ("A Ball Supper for 60 Persons") to staff concerns ("The Duties of a Maid of All Work"). A new ...