Isabella Beeton (1836 to 1865) was an English writer whose Book of Household Management, published in October 1861 after serialization from 1859, became the standard Victorian guide to cookery and domestic management. It sold nearly two million copies by 1868, and by 1891 her name had entered the Oxford English Dictionary as a generic term for a domestic authority. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Defining ContributionAuthor of the Book of Household Management, for over a century the standard English cookbook and domestic manual, outsold only by the Bible. 2 Connections
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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.
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Her name has become associated with knowledge and authority on Victorian cooking and home management, and the Oxford English Dictionary states that by 1891 the term Mrs Beeton had become used as a generic name for a domestic authority.
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Mrs. Beeton has been for over a century the standard English cookbook, frequently outselling every other book but the Bible.
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