Another lovely preview in advance of tonight's broadcast from here.

"Romantic, suspenseful, wry but with a mournful undercurrent, "The Secret Life of Mrs. Beeton" (8 tonight on Milwaukee's Channel 10 and other PBS stations) dramatizes the brief, eventful career of Isabella Beeton (Anna Madeley), who became 19th-century England's reigning domestic diva before her death at just 28.

At the urging of her publisher husband, Samuel (JJ Feild), Isabella compiled "Mrs. Beeton's Book of Household Management," a volume of recipes, rules and advice unlike anything that came before it. This 90-minute drama, complete in one episode, paints both Isabella and Sam as feminist heroes, working side by side to elevate homemaking from drudgery to art.

Madeley and Feild have real chemistry, and clever animation gives life to the book's Victorian engravings. But at least one British critic notes that screenwriter Sarah Williams ("Wallis & Edward") treats the speculation about the cause of Beeton's premature death as fact."