Meet Mrs. Beeton, written by L. du Garde Peach, was broadcast on 4 January 1934 on the BBC National Programme; Joyce Carey played Isabella and George Sanders played Samuel. [106] Wilson, Bee (18 September 2000). "Good egg; Food – You can't beat Mrs Beeton, says Bee Wilson". New Statesman. p.29. The Beetons decided to revamp The Englishwoman's Domestic Magazine, particularly the fashion column, which the historian Graham Nown describes as "a rather drab piece". [55] They travelled to Paris in March 1860 to meet Adolphe Goubaud, the publisher of the French magazine Le Moniteur de la Mode. [56] The magazine carried a full-sized dress pattern outlined on a fold-out piece of paper for users to cut out and make their own dresses. The Beetons came to an agreement with Goubaud for the Frenchman to provide patterns and illustrations for their magazine. The first edition to carry the new feature appeared on 1 May, six weeks after the couple returned from Paris. For the redesigned magazine, Samuel was joined as editor by Isabella, who was described as "Editress". [57] As well as being co-editors, the couple were also equal partners. Isabella brought an efficiency and strong business acumen to Samuel's normally disorganised and financially wasteful approach. [58] She joined her husband at work, travelling daily by train to the office, where her presence caused a stir among commuters, most of whom were male. [59] In June 1860 the Beetons travelled to Killarney, Ireland, for a fortnight's holiday, leaving their son at home with his nurse. They enjoyed the sightseeing, although on the days it rained, they stayed inside their hotel and worked on the next edition of The Englishwoman's Domestic Magazine. [60] Beeton was impressed with the food they were served, and wrote in her diary that the dinners were "conducted in quite the French style". [61] Many of the recipes were copied from the most successful cookery books of the day, including Eliza Acton's Modern Cookery for Private Families (first published in 1845), Elizabeth Raffald's The Experienced English Housekeeper (originally published in 1769), Marie-Antoine Carême's Le Pâtissier royal Parisien (1815), Hannah Glasse's The Art of Cookery Made Plain and Easy (1747), Maria Eliza Rundell's A New System of Domestic Cookery (1806), and the works of Charles Elmé Francatelli (1805–1876). This practice of Mrs. Beeton's has in modern times repeatedly been described as plagiarism. The writer Nancy Spain, in her biography of Beeton, put the month of birth as September, [49] while Freeman puts the birth in the autumn. [30]

The Secret Life of Mrs Beeton". Genome (Radio Times 1923–2009). BBC. Archived from the original on 8 December 2015 . Retrieved 2 December 2015. Previously published as a part-work, it was first published as a book in 1861 by S.O. Beeton Publishing, 161Bouverie Street, London, a firm founded by Samuel Beeton. [4] 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.The first chapter sets the tone of the book with a quotation from the Book of Proverbs, and in early editions cites also The Vicar of Wakefield with: [23]

Driver, Christopher (1983). The British at Table 1940–1980. London: Chatto & Windus. ISBN 978-0-7011-2582-0. Covers skillfully reattached, cloth lightly soiled, corners a little creased; a remarkably fresh copy. First edition of the first of Beeton's "cookery" books; the affordable spin-offs from her Book of Household Management (1861). Although the Book of Household Management is largely remembered as Beeton's legacy it was primarily these cheaper "part-issues, spin-offs, and extracts" which most influenced English cooking habits (Beetham, p. 395). This copy is in uncommonly attractive condition. RSC press release: Mrs. Beeton's toast sandwich". www.rsc.org. 15 November 2011. Archived from the original on 2015-10-16 . Retrieved 2015-11-09. How successful was Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management?". Lloyd's Weekly Newspaper. No.1257. 23 December 1866. Archived from the original on 18 June 2010.Beetham, Margaret (2012). "Beeton, Isabella Mary (1836–1865)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (onlineed.). Oxford University Press. doi: 10.1093/ref:odnb/37172 . Retrieved 3 November 2015. {{ cite encyclopedia}}: CS1 maint: ref duplicates default ( link) (Subscription or UK public library membership required.) Within a month of returning from their honeymoon Beeton was pregnant. [26] A few weeks before the birth, Samuel persuaded his wife to contribute to The Englishwoman's Domestic Magazine, a publication that the food writers Mary Aylett and Olive Ordish consider was "designed to make women content with their lot inside the home, not to interest them in the world outside". [27] The magazine was affordable, aimed at young middle class women and was commercially successful, selling 50,000 issues a month by 1856. [28] Beeton began by translating French fiction for publication as stories or serials. [29] Shortly afterwards she started to work on the cookery column—which had been moribund for the previous six months following the departure of the previous correspondent—and the household article. [30] [31] The Beetons' son, Samuel Orchart, was born towards the end of May 1857, but died at the end of August that year. On the death certificate, the cause of death was given as diarrhoea and cholera, although Hughes hypothesises that Samuel senior had unknowingly contracted syphilis in a premarital liaison with a prostitute, and had unwittingly passed the condition on to his wife, which would have infected his son. [32] Leith, Prue (14 August 2005). "The original domestic goddess". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 3 January 2021 . Retrieved 10 September 2013. Paxman, Jeremy (2009). The Victorians: Britain Through the Paintings of the Age. London: BBC Books. ISBN 978-1-84607-743-2.

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. Snodgrass, Mary Ellen (2004). Encyclopedia of Kitchen History. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge. ISBN 978-1-135-45572-9. The couple's twelfth child, Alfred, was embarrassed about the number of children and sent his father a condom through the post as a practical joke. His father, unhappy with the implication—condoms tended to only be used by prostitutes' clients—sent his son away for an apprenticeship with the merchant navy. [10] [11]

The Cookery Book". Western Mail. Perth: National Library of Australia. 25 August 1906. p.38. Archived from the original on 3 January 2021 . Retrieved 10 September 2013. 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] Brown, Mark (2 June 2006). "Mrs Beeton couldn't cook but she could copy, reveals historian". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 8 December 2015. Biography [ edit ] Early life, 1836–1854 [ edit ] Cheapside, London, where Isabella and her family moved in 1836 Freeman, Sarah (1989). Mutton and Oysters: The Victorians and Their Food. London: Gollancz. ISBN 978-0-575-03151-7.