Samuel Orchart 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...

Isabella Mayson became engaged to the young London publisher Samuel Beeton .

Isabella Mayson married publisher Samuel Orchart Beeton at Epsom.

Eight months after she married Samuel Beeton , the first of IB 's regular columns appeared in the Englishwoman's Domestic Magazine.

The forty-eight-page illustrated parts cost threepence each. It was heavily promoted through four-page yellow inserts in the Englishwoman's Domestic Magazine which proclaimed it: A New and Practical Work, Adapted for every family and one...

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...

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...

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...

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.

IB 's The Book of Household Management was published in volume form by her husband ; it became a fixture in British kitchens.

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.

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.