Isabella Mary Beeton

(1836 - 1865)

In 1851, Isabella Mary Mayson was sent to boarding school in Heidelberg, where she learned to speak German and French. Five years later she married Samuel Beeton, a publisher who acquired the British rights to Uncle Tom’s Cabin and then launched The Englishwoman’s Domestic Magazine, at which she worked as an “editress” and for which she wrote articles that grew into the book Mrs. Beeton’s Book of Household Management.