Beeton's housewife's treasury of domestic information : comprising complete and practical instructions on the house and its furniture, artistic decoration economy, toilet, children, etiquette, domestic and fancy needlework, dressmaking and millinery, and all other household matters : with every requisite direction to secure the comfort, elegance, and prosperity of the home : a companion volume to "Mrs. Beeton's book of household management" : profusely illustrated (1879)
Beeton, Mrs. (Isabella Mary), 1836-1865 · London ; New York : Ward, Lock & Co., Warwick House, Salisbury Square, E.C. · leaf 639
e they not written in the book of thechronicles of David Copperfield, when that youth adored the eldest Miss Larkins,and again, when he fell in love w ith sweet Dora ? 1007. A GIRL WITH LARGE feet should not wear her skirts soshort as unduly and unnecessarily to exhibit those extremities. A… … WILLIAM AND MARY COSTUMES. JAMES I. PERIOD. bodices, fichus, and other contrivances for giving breadth and ampli-tude to her figure. As the fashion now is, she may be as slight as shelikes, and even angles are admired by the pre-Raphaelites, perhaps asforming admirable pegs whereon to hang their…
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