who is isabella beeton?
An English journalist, editor and writer.
Isabella Beeton
Isabella Mary Beeton (' Mayson; 14 March 1836 – 6 February 1865), known as Mrs Beeton"', was an English journalist, editor and writer.
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Isabella Beeton [SEP] Introduction
The "Book of Household Management" has been edited, revised and enlarged several times since Beeton's death and is still in print as at 2016. Food writers have stated that the subsequent editions of the work were far removed from and inferior to the original version. Several cookery writers, including Elizabeth David and Clarissa Dickson Wright, have criticised Beeton's work, particularly her use of other people's recipes. Others, such as the food writer Bee Wilson, consider the censure overstated, and that Beeton and her work should be thought extraordinary and admirable. 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.