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Isabella Mary Beeton, 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.
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business · English journalist, publisher and writer (1836–1865) · publisher · journalist · writer · cookbook writer · businessperson · editor · also Isabella Beeton, Isabella Mayson, Isabella Mary Mayson, Mrs Beeton, Isabella Mary Beeton, Isabella Mary Mayson Beeton
Born 12 March 1836 · Died 6 February 1865 · Q287665
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Margaret Tyzack portrayed her in a solo performance written by Rosemary Hill, in 2006 Anna Madeley played Beeton in a docudrama, and Sophie Dahl presented a documentary, The Marvellous Mrs Beeton, in 2011
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Updated and retitled in 1956 to The Beeton Story
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Died 1865-02-06.
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The Beetons launched a series of 48-page monthly supplements to The Englishwoman's Domestic Magazine; the 24 instalments were published in one volume as Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management in October 1861, which s
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Less than a year after the wedding, Beeton began writing for one of her husband's publications, The Englishwoman's Domestic Magazine
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And had also released two innovative and pioneering journals: The Englishwoman's Domestic Magazine in 1852 and the Boys' Own magazine in 1855
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Isabella was sent to school in Heidelberg, Germany, accompanied by her stepsister Jane Dorling
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Born 1836-03-12.
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