Mrs. Beeton's Cookery Book and Household Guide

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The Englishwoman's Domestic Magazine". British Library. Archived from the original on 7 January 2016 . Retrieved 27 November 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]

a b c d e f g h Russell, Polly (2010-12-03). "Mrs Beeton, the first domestic goddess". Financial Times. Archived from the original on 2015-12-08 . Retrieved 2013-09-10. T]hese are so prepared, improved, and dressed by skill and ingenuity, that they are the means of immeasurably extending the boundaries of human enjoyments. 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.

After merging with Harper's magazine to become Harper's & Queen in 1970, the publication then became Harper's, before its current incarnation, Harper's Bazaar. [62] [63]

a b Stark, Monica (July 2001). "Domesticity for Victorian Dummies". January Magazine. Archived from the original on 3 January 2021 . Retrieved 8 April 2015. Biography [ edit ] Early life, 1836–1854 [ edit ] Cheapside, London, where Isabella and her family moved in 1836 Beeton, Isabella (1865). Mrs Beeton's Dictionary of Every-day Cookery. London: S.O. Beeton. OCLC 681270556. Despite the criticism, Clausen observes that "'Mrs. Beeton' has... been for over a century the standard English cookbook, frequently outselling every other book but the Bible". [74] According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the term Mrs Beeton became used as a generic name for "an authority on cooking and domestic subjects" as early as 1891, [102] [103] and Beetham opines that "'Mrs. Beeton' became a trade mark, a brand name". [43] In a review by Gavin Koh published in a 2009 issue of The BMJ, Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management was labelled a medical classic. In Beeton's "attempt to educate the average reader about common medical complaints and their management", Koh argues, "she preceded the family health guides of today". [104] Robin Wensley, a professor of strategic management, believes that Beeton's advice and guidance on household management can also be applied to business management, and her lessons on the subject have stood the test of time better than some of her advice on cooking or etiquette. [105] 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 ]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] The whole rest of the book is taken up with instructions for cooking, with an introduction in each chapter to the type of food it describes. The first of these, on soups, begins "Lean, juicy beef, mutton, and veal form the basis of all good soups; therefore it is advisable to procure those pieces which afford the richest succulence, and such as are fresh-killed." The account of how to make soup consists of a single essay, divided into general advice and numbered steps for making any kind of (meat-based) soup. This is followed in early editions by a separate chapter of recipes for soups of different kinds. [26] Hardy, Sheila (2011). The Real Mrs Beeton: The Story of Eliza Acton. Stroud, Glous: History Press. p. 1. ISBN 978-0-7524-6680-4. 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 practice in middle class German households at the time was for the mistress of the house to make cakes and puddings herself, rather than instructing the household staff to undertake the task. [15]

Beetham, Margaret (2004). "Beeton, Samuel Orchart (1831–1877)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (onlineed.). Oxford University Press. doi: 10.1093/ref:odnb/45481 . Retrieved 23 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]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. Shapiro, Laura (28 May 2006). " 'The Short Life and Long Times of Mrs. Beeton,' by Kathryn Hughes: Domestic Goddess". New York Times. Archived from the original on 3 January 2021 . Retrieved 8 April 2015. Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management". Oxford University Press. Archived from the original on 8 December 2015 . Retrieved 2 December 2015. She explains that she was thus attempting to make the basics of cookery "intelligible" to any "housewife". [2]

Hughes, Kathryn. "Mrs Beeton and the Art of Household Management". British Library. Archived from the original on 6 January 2016 . Retrieved 27 November 2015.

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Cynthia D. Bertelsen (23 August 2010). "Ladies of the Pen and the Cookpot: Isabella Beeton (Part I) – Cynthia D. Bertelsen's Gherkins & Tomatoes". Gherkinstomatoes.com. Archived from the original on 13 March 2016 . Retrieved 13 March 2016. The book thus advocates early rising, cleanliness, frugality, good temper, and the wisdom of interviewing servants rather than relying on written references. [23] a b 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. One of the most famous books of the Victorian age is The Book of Household Management. With a History of the Origin, Properties, and Uses of all things connected with Home Life and Comfort by Isabella Mary Beeton (London, first edition 1861).