Hughes, Kathryn (2006). The Short Life and Long Times of Mrs Beeton. HarperCollins. pp.198–201, 206–10. ISBN 978-0-7524-6122-9. Stringer, Helen (19 January 2000). "Mrs. Beeton Saved My Life". The Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on 29 December 2013 . Retrieved 10 September 2013. Search results for 'Mrs Beeton' ". WorldCat. Archived from the original on 6 March 2017 . Retrieved 7 January 2016. a b Clausen, Christopher (Summer 1993). "How to Join the Middle Classes: With the Help of Dr. Smiles and Mrs. Beeton". The American Scholar. 62 (3): 403–18. JSTOR 41212151.

She explains that she was thus attempting to make the basics of cookery "intelligible" to any "housewife". [2] The Library's buildings remain fully open but some services are limited, including access to collection items. We're 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]a b "Mrs Beeton (1836–1865)". BBC. 2014. Archived from the original on 3 January 2021 . Retrieved 15 May 2018. Beeton, Isabella (1865). Mrs Beeton's Dictionary of Every-day Cookery. London: S.O. Beeton. OCLC 681270556. 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. Richardson, Sarah (2013). The Political Worlds of Women: Gender and Politics in Nineteenth Century Britain. London: Routledge. ISBN 978-1-135-96493-1. a b Bryson, Bill (2011). At home: a short history of private life (1st Anchor Booksed.). New York: Anchor Books. ISBN 978-0-7679-1939-5.

Unlike earlier cookbook authors, such as Hannah Glasse, the book offered an "emphasis on thrift and economy". [1] It also discarded the style of previous writers who employed "daunting paragraph[s] of text with ingredients and method jumbled up together" for what is a recognisably modern "user-friendly formula listing ingredients, method, timings and even the estimated cost of each recipe". [1] [29] Plagiarism [ edit ] Beeton was buried at West Norwood Cemetery on 11 February. [9] [l] When The Dictionary of Every-Day Cookery was published in the same year, Samuel added a tribute to his wife at the end: 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.Mrs, n.1". Oxford English Dictionary. Archived from the original on 5 January 2016 . Retrieved 1 December 2015. (subscription required)

I have attempted to give, under the chapters devoted to cookery, an intelligible arrangement to every recipe, a list of the ingredients, a plain statement of the mode of preparing each dish, and a careful estimate of its cost, the number of people for whom it is sufficient, and the time when it is seasonable [2]

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Carpenter, Julie (17 November 2011). "Mrs Beeton's recipe of shame". The Daily Express . Retrieved 1 March 2016. 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. a b "Isabella Beeton". Orion Publishing Group. Archived from the original on 8 December 2015 . Retrieved 1 December 2015. 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. The first of Mrs Beeton's "part-issues, spin-offs, and extracts" which most influenced English cooking habits

The literary historian Kate Thomas sees Beeton as "a powerful force in the making of middle-class Victorian domesticity", [113] while the Oxford University Press, advertising an abridged edition of the Book of Household Management, considers Beeton's work a "founding text" [114] and "a force in shaping" the middle-class identity of the Victorian era. [115] Within that identity, the historian Sarah Richardson sees that one of Beeton's achievements was the integration of different threads of domestic science into one volume, which "elevat[ed] the middle-class female housekeeper's role... placing it in a broader and more public context". [116] Nown quotes an unnamed academic who thought that "Mrs Beetonism has preserved the family as a social unit, and made social reforms a possibility", [117] while Nicola Humble, in her history of British food, sees The Book of Household Management as "an engine for social change" which led to a "new cult of domesticity that was to play such a major role in mid-Victorian life". [118] Nown considers Beeton The soup—which took six and a half hours to make at the cost of 1 + 1⁄ 2d. ("d" was a penny, 1/240 of a pound sterling) per quart—consisted of: 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] Mrs. Beeton's Book of Household Management, also published as Mrs. Beeton's Cookery Book, is an extensive guide to running a household in Victorian Britain, edited by Isabella Beeton and first published as a book in 1861. Previously published in parts, it initially and briefly bore the title Beeton's Book of Household Management, as one of the series of guidebooks published by her husband, Samuel Beeton. The recipes were highly structured, in contrast to those in earlier cookbooks. It was illustrated with many monochrome and colour plates. a b Brown, Mark (2006-06-02). "Mrs Beeton couldn't cook but she could copy, reveals historian". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 2015-12-08 . Retrieved 2013-09-10.The food writer and chef Gerard Baker tested and revised 220 of Beeton's recipes, and published the result as Mrs. Beeton: How To Cook (2011). [48] Hardy, Sheila (2011). The Real Mrs. Beeton: The Story of Eliza Acton. History Press. p. 203. ISBN 978-0-7524-6680-4. I must frankly own, that if I had known, beforehand, that this book would have cost me the labour which it has, I should never have been courageous enough to commence it.