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Isabella Mary Beeton ( née Mayson; 14 March 1836– 6 February 1865), known as Mrs Beeton, was an English journalist, editor and writer. Her name is particularly associated with her first book, the 1861 work Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management. She was born in London and, after schooling in Islington, north London, and Heidelberg, Germany, she married Samuel Orchart Beeton, an ambitious publisher and magazine editor. Following the radio broadcast of Meet Mrs. Beeton, a 1934 comedy in which Samuel was portrayed in an unflattering light, [m] and Mrs Beeton, a 1937 documentary, [n] Mayston Beeton worked with H. Montgomery Hyde to produce the biography Mr and Mrs Beeton, although completion and publication were delayed until 1951. In the meantime Nancy Spain published Mrs Beeton and her Husband in 1948, updated and retitled in 1956 to The Beeton Story. In the new edition Spain hinted at, but did not elucidate upon, on the possibility that Samuel contracted syphilis. Several other biographies followed, including from the historian Sarah Freeman, who wrote Isabella and Sam in 1977; Nown's Mrs Beeton: 150 Years of Cookery and Household Management, published on the 150th anniversary of Beeton's birthday, and Hughes's The Short Life and Long Times of Mrs Beeton, published in 2006. [37] [108] Beeton was ignored by the Dictionary of National Biography for many years: while Acton was included in the first published volume of 1885, Beeton did not have an entry until 1993. [109] Mrs. Beeton, written by Joan Adeney Easdale, was broadcast on 9 November 1937 on the BBC Regional Programme. [107] Barnes, Julian (3 April 2003). "Mrs Beeton to the rescue". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 19 November 2015. Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management". Oxford University Press. Archived from the original on 8 December 2015 . Retrieved 2 December 2015.

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Freeman, Sarah (1989). Mutton and Oysters: The Victorians and Their Food. London: Gollancz. ISBN 978-0-575-03151-7. Hughes, Kathryn (2006). The Short Life and Long Times of Mrs Beeton. London: HarperCollins Publishers. ISBN 978-0-7524-6122-9.

Russell, Polly (3 December 2010). "Mrs Beeton, the first domestic goddess". Financial Times. Archived from the original on 8 December 2015. Cox, Howard; Mowatt, Simon (2014). Revolutions from Grub Street: A History of Magazine Publishing in Britain. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-960163-9. Meet Mrs Beeton". Genome (Radio Times 1923–2009). BBC. Archived from the original on 8 December 2015 . Retrieved 2 December 2015. Nichols, Martha (June 2000). "Home is Where the Dirt is". The Women's Review of Books. 17 (9): 9–11. doi: 10.2307/4023454. JSTOR 4023454.Mayson became a journalist for the Daily Mail; he was knighted for his work at the Ministry of Munitions during the First World War. The Beetons' elder son, Orchart, went on to a career in the army; both died in 1947. [88] Freeman, Sarah (1977). Isabella and Sam: The Story of Mrs. Beeton. London: Victor Gollancz Ltd. ISBN 978-0-575-01835-8. After a brief education at a boarding school in Islington, in 1851 Isabella was sent to school in Heidelberg, Germany, accompanied by her stepsister Jane Dorling. Isabella became proficient in the piano and excelled in French and German; she also gained knowledge and experience in making pastry. [13] [14] [e] She had returned to Epsom by the summer of 1854 and took further lessons in pastry-making from a local baker. [9] [16] Marriage and career, 1854–1861 [ edit ]

Beeton, Isabella (1865). Mrs Beeton's Dictionary of Every-day Cookery. London: S.O. Beeton. OCLC 681270556. Koh, Gavin (26 September 2009). "Medical Classics; The Book of Household Management". The BMJ. 339 (7723): 755. doi: 10.1136/bmj.b3866. JSTOR 25672776. S2CID 72911468. The book was very well known as Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management, it was a guide to running a Victorian household, with advice on fashion, child care, animal husbandry, poisons, the management of servants, science, religion, and industrialism.Their first child, Samuel Orchart, was born in May 1857 but he died of croup in August of that year. In September 1859, another son was born, and his name was also Samuel Orchart. During the particularly bitter winter of 1858–59 Beeton prepared her own soup that she served to the poor of Pinner, "Soup for benevolent purposes"; [f] her sister later recalled that Beeton "was busy making [the] soup for the poor, and the children used to call with their cans regularly to be refilled". [46] [47] The recipe would become the only entry in her Book of Household Management that was her own. [48] After two years of miscarriages, the couple's second son was born in June 1859; he was also named Samuel Orchart Beeton. [g] Hughes sees the miscarriages as further evidence of Samuel's syphilis. [50] Mrs Beeton". Genome (Radio Times 1923–2009). BBC. Archived from the original on 8 December 2015 . Retrieved 2 December 2015. The Marvellous Mrs Beeton, with Sophie Dahl". BBC. Archived from the original on 2 January 2016 . Retrieved 2 December 2015. David, Elizabeth (1961). An Omelette and a Glass of Wine. New York, NY: Lyons & Burford. ISBN 978-1-55821-571-9.