advice was suitable for households with just one servant. In her books especially, she encouraged frugality and was concerned with "moral management of the home". Some journals, like the Churchman's Shilling Magazine, ran stories about young adults who learned domestic budget management from reading Mrs. Warren's books. Meanwhile, Mrs. Beeton and other Victorian writers on household management implied that their middle-class readers had a variety of servants and leisure to entertain and socialise. Life Eliza Jervis was born on 23 December 1810 in Wells, Somerset, and was the eldest of the six children of a draper. After marrying a commercial traveller called Walter Warren in 1836 she moved to London. Within a couple of years of being widowed unexpectedly in 1844 she started publishing needlework manuals. Her next marriage in 1851, to Frederic Francis, a customs officer, lasted less than five years before Eliza found herself a widow again. If she had any children they did not survive infancy. While she kept up a steady stream of book and magazine work for 20 years and more after Frederic's death, she also moved out of London to Surrey and started a boarding house. She lived there with about half a dozen lodgers and one or two servants until the 1890s. As well as handling these responsibilities, over the years she had provided a home for a niece and nephew, and, as the eldest daughter of a sick mother, had learnt to manage household duties from a young age. Her experience fitted her for writing on household management, but she had to give the impression of being the well-established mother of a family, like her competitors in the domestic advice business, and so she kept the facts of her own life vague enough to support her writing career and professional persona. Works Needlework and crafts The Court Crochet Doyley book, with original patterns, ornamentally illustrated The Point-Lace Crochet Collar Book The Court Crochet Collar and Cuff Book, with original patterns, ornamentally illustrated, etc. The short-way crochet edging book Treasures in needlework : comprising instructions in knitting, netting, crochet, point lace, tatting, braiding, and embroidery: illustrated with useful and ornamental designs, patterns, &c, co-author Mrs. Pullan Elegant work for delicate fingers, consisting of designs for crochet work, knitting [&c.] by M. Girardin, Mrs. Warren, and Mrs. Pullan, under the superintendence of the editor of Enquire within upon everything Sixteen Fancy-Work Designs for sofa