by Isabella Beeton
For the Celebrity Death Match Review Tournament, Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management (16) versus War and Peace (17)- Count Tolstoy, to what do I owe the pleasure of this unexpected visit?- Mrs Beeton, admit defeat. Your goose is cooked.- What, already? Let me check the thermometer... no, still...
Celebrity Death Match Review Elimination Tournament Review: Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management (16) vs. War and Peace (17) With a satisfied flick of her tail, Mrs. B. groomed back into place two stray hairs that had come lose in her shining black fur during her foray into the pantry, then s...
A Celebrity Deathmatch review. Mrs B vs War and Peace.Me: They’ve announced the draw for the fight tonight.You’ve got Leo.Mrs B: Tolstoy? That – that – that –Me: Vegetarian? Mrs B: Exactly. That vapid wimpy, let’s not be killing animals, I eat to live Russian borscht swiller. Well, pluck me dead and...
Intriguing and educational...a marvelous history book.9-16-11 Now I know what to do with the butler when I get one. Uh huh.
In The Awakening we are prompted to sympathize with Edna Pontellier, who feels unfulfilled, a piece of property her husband owns. At one point in the book, Edna steps over a servant, a “quadroon,” and I thought, “What about her life?” In more books than you would suppose, the servants, the lower cla...
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