Their engagement was difficult because of the opposition of her stepfather, who considered her twenty-four-year-old fiancé financially irresponsible and socially inferior. Beeton was at this point a partner in Clarke, Beeton & Co.
Freeman, Sarah. Isabella and Sam: The Story of Mrs Beeton. Coward, McCann and Geoghegan, 1977.
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