{"product_id":"appearances-how-to-keep-them-up-on-a-limited-income-paperback-9781108071925","title":"Appearances; How to Keep Them Up on a Limited Income (Paperback \/ softback) 9781108071925","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eAppearances\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eHow to Keep Them Up on a Limited Income\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis interesting piece of social history from 1899 describes how a newly married woman on a restricted income keeps house.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eTeresa Praga (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781108071925, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 8 May 2014\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e188 pages\u003cbr\u003e21.6 x 14 x 1.1 cm, 0.25 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThis interesting piece of social history, published in 1899, appears to have been the first non-fiction work by Teresa Praga (d.1920), the wife of a portrait painter and miniaturist, who also published novels. Her later output included books on cookery, housekeeping and dress, many with the emphasis on 'easy' (Easy French Sweets for English Cooks, for example). Like Jane Panton (several of whose books on lifestyle are also reissued in this series), Praga is writing for middle-class wives with not much money, and aspirations to gracious living. Appearances (subtitled How to Keep Them Up on a Limited Income) is presented as autobiography: how a newly married woman, on a very restricted income but used to - and liking - being 'waited on', manages a house. With detailed descriptions of finances, menus, the duties of servants, and other minutiae, this is a light-hearted account of late Victorian housekeeping.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e 1. Ways and means on £300 a year\u003cbr\u003e 2. In search of servants\u003cbr\u003e 3. Training the servants\u003cbr\u003e 4. Domestic details - how it worked\u003cbr\u003e 5. The shops - how to select them\u003cbr\u003e 6. How to spend the house-keeping money\u003cbr\u003e 7. How I shopped\u003cbr\u003e 8. The cook - how to train her\u003cbr\u003e 9. The cook - how to train her (cont.)\u003cbr\u003e 10. Entrees, breakfasts and luncheons\u003cbr\u003e 11. The commissariat\u003cbr\u003e 12. Entertaining\u003cbr\u003e 13. Dress\u003cbr\u003e 14. Amusements\u003cbr\u003e 15. The annual holiday\u003cbr\u003e 16. The family medicine chest\u003cbr\u003e 17. Keeping up appearances\u003cbr\u003e 18. Success\u003cbr\u003e Appendix\u003cbr\u003e Index.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Social \u0026amp; cultural history [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Social \u0026amp; cultural history\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Social%20\u0026amp;%20cultural%20history%20%5BHBTB%5D%22\"\u003eHBTB\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45913266520344,"sku":"9781108071925","price":23.29,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9781108071925i.jpg?v=1696748896","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/appearances-how-to-keep-them-up-on-a-limited-income-paperback-9781108071925","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}