Mrs Beeton was the Jamie Oliver, Gordon Ramsay and Martha Stewart of the Nineteenth Century, all rolled into one! She was the homemaker and cook par excellence

"Ackroyd, as always, is well worth the read." —Kirkus, starred review Dominion, the fifth volume of Peter Ackroyd’s masterful History of England, begins in

Eliza Acton is the forgotten hero of our culinary past. A debt of gratitude to her is what Delia Smith, Elizabeth David and Mrs Beeton have in common. She was t