Is Delia past her sell by date?

I've got the Marguerite Patten 500 Recipes. Still use it for chutney recipes.

My good old standby is my Mrs Beetons given to me by my mum and dad-in-law for Xmas 1970. I learnt a lot from that book. A rubber band keeps it together now.

I had a Marguerite Patten book when I first started cooking for myself and my sister and her then fiancé sent me a copy of Mrs Beeton in 1969 when I got engaged. I still have it. Forty-odd years on, some of her domestic advice seems positively Victorian, partly because the assumption then was that the majority of women were full-time housewives.