The Book of Household Management was published in 1861 by Isabella Beeton. This is ultimaetly a cookbook with a tasteful side theme of household management for the middle-class domestic wife. This book could be used as cookbook with its own "domestic manual offering advice on servants, children, dinner parties, clothing and furnishings"(Zlotnick). It gave you the best recipes for dinner along with ways to properly manage your household. This book could even be considered the perfect book for your everyday domestic middle-class house wife in the Victorian era.