 Suggestions ranging from fashioning gothic architecture inspired furniture and embroidery were featured in household manuals Cassell’s "Household Guide" and Isabella Beeton's The Book of Household Management, published in the 1860s.Aimed at the increasing Victorian middle class, these manuals encouraged the purchase of material goods for their homes.The manual "Hints on Household Taste" by Charles Eastlake first published in 1868 dealt explicitly with decorative choice and consisted of articles that were first successive in magazines.