or sent in by the magazine’s readers. In 1859 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 sold 60,000
copies in the first year. Isabella was working on an abridged version
of her book, which was to be titled The Dictionary of Every-Day Cookery,
when she died of puerperal fever in February 1865 at the age of 28. She
gave birth to four children, two of whom died in infancy, and had
several miscarriages. Two of her biographers, Nancy Spain and Kathryn
Hughes, posit the theory that Samuel had unknowingly contracted syphilis
in a premarital liaison with a prostitute, and had unwittingly passed
the condition on to his wife.
The Book of Household Management has been edited, revised and enlarged
several times after Isabella’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 Isabella’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. She is also
considered a strong influence in the building or shaping of a
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