Freeman, Sarah. Isabella and Sam: The Story of Mrs Beeton. Coward, McCann and Geoghegan, 1977.
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Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Employer | Isabella Beeton | Henceforth, at the age of twenty-four, IB
took on what was in effect an equal partnership with her husband in the planning and editing of the magazine, and began to work outside her home in... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Isabella Beeton | Isabella Mayson
became engaged to the young London publisher Samuel Beeton
. Freeman, Sarah. Isabella and Sam: The Story of Mrs Beeton. Coward, McCann and Geoghegan, 1977. 96 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Isabella Beeton | Isabella Mayson
married publisher Samuel Orchart Beeton
at Epsom. Freeman, Sarah. Isabella and Sam: The Story of Mrs Beeton. Coward, McCann and Geoghegan, 1977. 123 |
Publishing | Isabella Beeton | Eight months after she married Samuel Beeton
, the first of IB
's regular columns appeared in the Englishwoman's Domestic Magazine. Freeman, Sarah. Isabella and Sam: The Story of Mrs Beeton. Coward, McCann and Geoghegan, 1977. 132, 134 |
Publishing | Isabella Beeton | The forty-eight-page illustrated parts cost threepence each. Freeman, Sarah. Isabella and Sam: The Story of Mrs Beeton. Coward, McCann and Geoghegan, 1977. 162 |
Publishing | Isabella Beeton | Many further editions, abridgements, and follow-up publications appeared in the following years, as Samuel Beeton
and, following his failure, Ward, Lock and Co.
capitalised on the book's success. As Sarah Freeman
notes, later editions, which... |
Reception | Isabella Beeton | IB
earned nothing for her book, as she earned nothing for her editing work for and contributions to Samuel Beeton
's magazines, but the book contributed to a higher income for the couple and the... |
Reception | Harriet Beecher Stowe | The change in subtitle since the book's serial publication seems calculated to reduce its offensiveness to pro-slavery readers. The book sold an astounding 10,000 copies in the first week and sales kept on at a... |
Residence | Isabella Beeton | Not long after the death of their second son, the BeetonsSamuel Orchart Beeton
moved into a newly purchased but modest home in the country at Greenhithe, near London. Freeman, Sarah. Isabella and Sam: The Story of Mrs Beeton. Coward, McCann and Geoghegan, 1977. 226-7 |
Textual Production | Isabella Beeton | IB
's The Book of Household Management was published in volume form by her husband
; it became a fixture in British kitchens. Bloom, Abigail Burnham, editor. Nineteenth-Century British Women Writers. Greenwood Press, 2000. 21 Freeman, Sarah. Isabella and Sam: The Story of Mrs Beeton. Coward, McCann and Geoghegan, 1977. 161-2 |
Textual Production | Isabella Beeton | According to biographer Sarah Freeman
, IB
began writing out of boredom with her married life and from a desire to participate in the excitement of her husband Samuel Beeton
's magazine business. Freeman, Sarah. Isabella and Sam: The Story of Mrs Beeton. Coward, McCann and Geoghegan, 1977. 132 Even... |
Travel | Isabella Beeton | Isabella
and Samuel Beeton
travelled to Paris to investigate her idea of providing the Englishwoman's Domestic Magazine with paper dress patterns and high-quality colour fashion plates. Freeman, Sarah. Isabella and Sam: The Story of Mrs Beeton. Coward, McCann and Geoghegan, 1977. 164-5, 175 |
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