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Isabella Beeton

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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.

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Birth Year
1836 1
Death Year
1865 1
Nationality
English 1
Defining Contribution
Author of the Book of Household Management, for over a century the standard English cookbook and domestic manual, outsold only by the Bible. 2
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1. Isabella Beeton (Wikipedia)
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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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1. Isabella Beeton (Wikipedia)
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1. Isabella Beeton (Wikipedia)
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2. Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management (Wikipedia)
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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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