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ISABELLa MARY MAYSON
MRS.BEETON- COOKING & HOUSEHOLD MANAGEMENT
1836-1865
Isabella Mary Mayson was born in Cheapside, London, March 12, 1836, & was the oldest of 4 children. Her father, Benjamin died when she was a young girl; so her mother, Elizabeth (nee Jerram), re-married to Henry Dorling a widower with 4 children of his own. Henry & Elizabeth now with 8 children, went on to have 13 more children, making a total of 21 altogether.
The family lived in Surrey, at Epsom racecourse's grandstand (with a huge kitchen) as Henry Dorling, was a Clerk of the Course at Epsom, appointed in 1840. Isabella being the eldest of 21 children, had learned many skills on Motherhood & running a household, as she would quite often babysit her siblings.
Isabella was educated in Heidelberg, Germany, where she developed her skills as a pianist. On returning to London, she met a rich and striking publisher of books and popular magazines by the name of Samuel Orchart Beeton & the two were married in July of 1856. Isabella's stepfather didn't approve of the match & refused to attend the wedding, as Samuel had a bit of a reputation of being a womaniser.
In August of that year 1856 the couple moved into their first home, a large Italianate property on the Woodridings Estate in Hatch End. Their first child, Samuel Orchart, was born in May 1857 but died of croup in August of that year. Two years later in September 1859 their second son, also named Samuel Orchart was born, but took ill with scarlet fever while they were holidaying in Brighton that same year & he died on New Year's Eve. Isabella had many miscarriages & stillbirths, but did go on to have two more sons. Orchart, born New year's eve 1863 and Mayson Moss born January 1865. Orchart went on to lead a prosperous life in the army and Mayson initially followed in his father's footsteps as a publisher and later as a journalist.
During their marriage, Isabella and Samuel were a successful & prolific team. Between 1859-1861, Isabella wrote articles about cooking & domestic management for Samuel's publications,including a monthly column for The Englishwoman's Domestic Magazine: an Illustrated Journal combing Practical Information, Instruction & Amusement.
In October of 1861, the supplements were collected & published as a single volume. The book's official and complete title was: The Book of Household Management Comprising information for the Mistress, Housekeeper, Cook, Kitchen-Maid, Butler, Footman, Coachman, Valet, Upper and Under House-Maids, Lady's-Maid, Maid-of-all-Work, Laundry-Maid, Nurse and Nurse-Maid, Monthly Wet and Sick Nurses, etc. etc.also Sanitary, Medical, & Legal Memoranda: With a History of the Origin, Properties, and Uses of all Things Connected with Home Life and Comfort, edited by Mrs. Isabella Beeton.
Isabella's book became the most famous English domestic manual ever published. It was essentially a guide to running a Victorian household & was an immediate success, selling more than 60,000 copies in its first year of publication, and almost two million by 1868.
In the preface, Isabella (known as Mrs. Beeton) discusses the motivation behind the book & expressed in words as only a 19thcentury Victorian Woman could: "What moved me, in the first instance, to attempt a work like this, was the discomfort and suffering which I had seen brought upon men & women by household mismanagement. I have always thought that there is no more fruitful source of family discontent than a housewife's badly cooked dinners & untidy ways. Men are now so well served out of doors and their clubs, well-ordered taverns, and dining-houses -- that, in order to compete with the attraction of these places, a mistress must be thoroughly acquainted with the theory and practice of cookery, as well as be perfectly conversant with all the other arts of making and keeping a comfortable home".
Isabella embraced the traditional roles of the woman as queen of the domestic sphere and the man as king of the public sphere,which was the case in her era.There were many skills which she felt that girls no longer learned automatically from their mothers. 'Mrs. Beeton' would step in to become a kind of universal mother."
Although the book contained hundreds of recipes, most of them were not Isabella's originals. The book was meant to be a collection of useful information; Mrs. Beeton's strength was in creating an organizational structure for vast quantities of data, not in cooking
Isabella died at the age of 28 after giving birth to her 4th child in January of 1865. Her death is officially attributed to puerperal fever, an acute type of septicemia. She was buried at West Norwood Cemetery in the London borough of Lambeth. Samuel Beeton & subsequent publishers kept the news of Isabella's death quiet & continued to publish updates to Household Management, as well as completely new books, under her name.
Reference
http://www.ulib.niu.edu/badndp/beeton_samuel.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isabella_Beeton
The family lived in Surrey, at Epsom racecourse's grandstand (with a huge kitchen) as Henry Dorling, was a Clerk of the Course at Epsom, appointed in 1840. Isabella being the eldest of 21 children, had learned many skills on Motherhood & running a household, as she would quite often babysit her siblings.
Isabella was educated in Heidelberg, Germany, where she developed her skills as a pianist. On returning to London, she met a rich and striking publisher of books and popular magazines by the name of Samuel Orchart Beeton & the two were married in July of 1856. Isabella's stepfather didn't approve of the match & refused to attend the wedding, as Samuel had a bit of a reputation of being a womaniser.
In August of that year 1856 the couple moved into their first home, a large Italianate property on the Woodridings Estate in Hatch End. Their first child, Samuel Orchart, was born in May 1857 but died of croup in August of that year. Two years later in September 1859 their second son, also named Samuel Orchart was born, but took ill with scarlet fever while they were holidaying in Brighton that same year & he died on New Year's Eve. Isabella had many miscarriages & stillbirths, but did go on to have two more sons. Orchart, born New year's eve 1863 and Mayson Moss born January 1865. Orchart went on to lead a prosperous life in the army and Mayson initially followed in his father's footsteps as a publisher and later as a journalist.
During their marriage, Isabella and Samuel were a successful & prolific team. Between 1859-1861, Isabella wrote articles about cooking & domestic management for Samuel's publications,including a monthly column for The Englishwoman's Domestic Magazine: an Illustrated Journal combing Practical Information, Instruction & Amusement.
In October of 1861, the supplements were collected & published as a single volume. The book's official and complete title was: The Book of Household Management Comprising information for the Mistress, Housekeeper, Cook, Kitchen-Maid, Butler, Footman, Coachman, Valet, Upper and Under House-Maids, Lady's-Maid, Maid-of-all-Work, Laundry-Maid, Nurse and Nurse-Maid, Monthly Wet and Sick Nurses, etc. etc.also Sanitary, Medical, & Legal Memoranda: With a History of the Origin, Properties, and Uses of all Things Connected with Home Life and Comfort, edited by Mrs. Isabella Beeton.
Isabella's book became the most famous English domestic manual ever published. It was essentially a guide to running a Victorian household & was an immediate success, selling more than 60,000 copies in its first year of publication, and almost two million by 1868.
In the preface, Isabella (known as Mrs. Beeton) discusses the motivation behind the book & expressed in words as only a 19thcentury Victorian Woman could: "What moved me, in the first instance, to attempt a work like this, was the discomfort and suffering which I had seen brought upon men & women by household mismanagement. I have always thought that there is no more fruitful source of family discontent than a housewife's badly cooked dinners & untidy ways. Men are now so well served out of doors and their clubs, well-ordered taverns, and dining-houses -- that, in order to compete with the attraction of these places, a mistress must be thoroughly acquainted with the theory and practice of cookery, as well as be perfectly conversant with all the other arts of making and keeping a comfortable home".
Isabella embraced the traditional roles of the woman as queen of the domestic sphere and the man as king of the public sphere,which was the case in her era.There were many skills which she felt that girls no longer learned automatically from their mothers. 'Mrs. Beeton' would step in to become a kind of universal mother."
Although the book contained hundreds of recipes, most of them were not Isabella's originals. The book was meant to be a collection of useful information; Mrs. Beeton's strength was in creating an organizational structure for vast quantities of data, not in cooking
Isabella died at the age of 28 after giving birth to her 4th child in January of 1865. Her death is officially attributed to puerperal fever, an acute type of septicemia. She was buried at West Norwood Cemetery in the London borough of Lambeth. Samuel Beeton & subsequent publishers kept the news of Isabella's death quiet & continued to publish updates to Household Management, as well as completely new books, under her name.
Reference
http://www.ulib.niu.edu/badndp/beeton_samuel.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isabella_Beeton
1. Household Management
2. Brixton
3. Cheapside
4. Epsom, Surrey
5. Emily Davison, Suffragette
6. Spa, Salts & Springs of Epsom & Ewell
7. Natural Spring Wells
8. Samuel Orchart Beeton
9. West Norwood Cemetery & the Magnificent Seven
10. Mrs. Beeton's Reference Books
2. Brixton
3. Cheapside
4. Epsom, Surrey
5. Emily Davison, Suffragette
6. Spa, Salts & Springs of Epsom & Ewell
7. Natural Spring Wells
8. Samuel Orchart Beeton
9. West Norwood Cemetery & the Magnificent Seven
10. Mrs. Beeton's Reference Books
Household Management
The Book of Household Management contained over 900 pages of recipes & was the first book to show recipes in a format still used today.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/mrsbeeton/ Isabella Beeton didn't live in a grand country house with a staff of servants, but in a brand new semi detached house, on a newly built estate
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She included large sections of Eliza Acton's book " Modern Cookery for Private Families" (1845) without acknowledgement, as well as recipes from the Duke of York's famous cook, Louis Eustache Ude, writer of 'The French Cook" (1813) Thomas Webster (" The Encyclopedia of Domestic Economy" 1844) and William Kitchiner ("The Cook's Oracle" 1817). Not much was made of this, perhaps because by then the authors were dead.
Mrs. Beeton's Book of Household Management
http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/b/beeton/isabell |
She commuted to her office in London every day by train, which was a very modern and unusual thing for a young woman of that era to do.
Although the book contained hundreds of recipes and is also known as Mrs. Beeton's Cookbook, most of the recipes were not Isabella's originals. The book was meant to be a collection of useful information; Mrs. Beeton's strength was in creating an organizational structure for vast quantities of data, not in cooking
Mrs Beeton was herself a great believer in short cuts
http://thecookscottage.typepad.com/curry/2007/07will-the-real-m.html
Mrs Beeton was herself a great believer in short cuts
http://thecookscottage.typepad.com/curry/2007/07will-the-real-m.html
The Supper Table, from Isabella’s copy of Mrs. Beeton’s Every-Day Cookery
and Housekeeping Book, Museum Archives
http://gardnerafterhours.wordpress.com/2007/ 11/09/isabellas-advice-for-the-holiday-table/
and Housekeeping Book, Museum Archives
http://gardnerafterhours.wordpress.com/2007/ 11/09/isabellas-advice-for-the-holiday-table/
Brixton
BRIXTON
The London district of Brixton lies to the south of the River Thames, near the district of Dulwich and has a unique history, stretching back a thousand years. http://www.urban75.org/brixton/history/hist Then and Now: Old posters and handbills http://www.urban75.org/brixton/history/pos |
Booth's 1898-99 map of Brixton reveals a generally affluent, middle class area with upper classes residing on Brixton Hill with just a small scattering of poor homes in the area.
http://booth.lse.ac.uk/ |
Electric Ave.,Brixton Brixton was once famed for its lavish Christmas decorations, with its upmarket showcase shopping street in Electric Avenue proving to be a veritable winter wonderland for visitors. Illuminated by electric light – still a comparatively rare sight in 1908 – the street must have looked a magical place to Edwardian eyes. http://www.brixtonbuzz.com/2013/12/an-edwardian |
Cheapside
Cheapside
Is a common English street name, meaning "market place" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheapside |
Charles Dickens, Jr. wrote in his 1879 book Dickens's Dictionary of London:
"Cheapside remains now what it was 5 centuries ago, the greatest thoroughfare in the City of London..........Cheapside has maintained its place, and may boast of being the busiest thoroughfare in the world, with the sole exception perhaps of London-bridge Dickens's Dictionary of London, by Charles Dickens, Jr., 1879 http://www.victorianlondon.org/publications/diction Other cities and towns in England that have a Cheapside include Ascot, Barnsley, Birmingham, Bradford, Brighton, Bristol, Derby, Halifax, Lancaster, Leicester, Liverpool, Luton, Manchester, Nottingham, Preston and Reading. |
Epsom, Surrey
EPSOM, SURREY, ENGLAND
Epsom is a town with a market in the borough of Epsom & Ewell, Surrey, Eng. Some parts of Epsom are in the Borough of Reigate and Banstead and Mole Valley District. The town also gives it's name to Epsom Salts which were identified from mineral waters there. http://www.epsomandewellhistoryexplorer.org.uk/in |
THE EPSOM DOWNS RACECOURSE
The first recorded race was held on the Downs in 1661, although
a local burial list of 1625 refers to "William Stanley who in running the race fell from his horse & brake his neck" so it is likely that racing was established much earlier than that. Epsom is referenced in the diary of Samuel Pepys in 1663 & Charles II is said to have been a racegoer there. By 1684, Epsom had a clerk of the course and from 1730 was hosting twice yearly race meetings. In the summer of 1779 Edward Smith-Stanley, 12th Earl of Derby organised a race for himself & his friends to race their 3 year old fillies.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epsom_Downs_Racecourse
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surrey
The first recorded race was held on the Downs in 1661, although
a local burial list of 1625 refers to "William Stanley who in running the race fell from his horse & brake his neck" so it is likely that racing was established much earlier than that. Epsom is referenced in the diary of Samuel Pepys in 1663 & Charles II is said to have been a racegoer there. By 1684, Epsom had a clerk of the course and from 1730 was hosting twice yearly race meetings. In the summer of 1779 Edward Smith-Stanley, 12th Earl of Derby organised a race for himself & his friends to race their 3 year old fillies.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epsom_Downs_Racecourse
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surrey
Emily Davison, Suffragette
Emily Wilding Davison was a militant suffragette who fought for women's suffrage in Britain. She was jailed on nine occasions and force-fed 49 times.(wikipedia)
Women's Suffrage- 24:47
The term "suffrage" might be particularly associated with activists in the British WSPU, led by Emmeline and Christabel Pankhurst |
Emily Davison
the 41 year old Suffragette, fractured her skull & died four days later after being struck by a horse at Epsom racecourse in 1913 http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-surrey The Death of Suffragette Emily Wilding Davison http://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/from-the Suffragette Emily Davison Killed 1913
6:55 Suffragettes were members of women's organisations in the late-19th & early-20th centuries which advocated the right for women to vote in public elections. It particularly refers to militants in the U.K. such as members of the Women's Social & Political Union (WSPU). Suffragist is a more general term for members of the suffrage movement.
Emmeline and Christabel Pankhurst, were influenced by Russian methods of protest such as hunger strikes.
Secrets Of A Suffragette (Women's Rights Documentary) | Timeline 46:52
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Spa, Salts & Springs of Epsom & Ewell
Epsom High Street showing the Assembly Rooms on the right
Present day Epsom Wells
http://www.epsomandewellhistoryexplorer |
The Historic Spa,Salts & Springs of Epsom & Ewell
http://www.thespasdirectory |
Magnesium Sulfate
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EPSOM SALTS Epsom salt, first discovered in Epsom, England in the waters of their wells, has been used for centuries for a multitude of beneficial purposes-- from fertilizing gardens worldwide to easing muscle aches and other ailments. Tradition told how the healing powers of the waters were discovered in 1618 or thereabouts. A villager called Henry Wicker was looking after animals on Epsom Common in a dry summer, when there was a shortage of water for cattle. He found a trickle of water in the hollow hoofprint of a cow, and dug a square hole about it before taking the animals home for the night. Returning the next day he found the hole that he had made was full and running over with clear water. But his cattle, however thirsty, would not drink from it because of its mineral taste http://www.epsomandewellhistoryexplorer.org.uk/EpsomSpa.html |
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Epsom Salt contains Magnesium Sulfate Magnesium is crucial to healthy cell functioning in our bodies, and helps to regulate more than 325 enzymes. Sulfate (sulfur) is found in literally every cell in the human body and has a crucial role in maintaining and enhancing overall health http://www.epsomsaltsoakbath.com/history-of What is Epsom Salt? http://www.ultraepsom.com/what-is-epsom Granny was right! http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2367451 Epsom Salt Bath Treatments http://health.howstuffworks.com/skin-care/problems |
Crafting with Epsom Salts
http://www.epsomsaltcouncil.org/salt-crafts/# DIY Epsom Salt Ornaments http://thriftyparsonageliving.blogspot.com.au/2010/ Crafting with Epsom Salts http://homeandgarden.craftgossip.com/crafting facebook Epsom Salts Ideas https://www.facebook.com/epsomsalt |
Natural Spring Wells
SPOUT AT ST. ANN'S WELL
By Ruth Harris, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php In 1843, Schweppes commercialised Malvern Water
At the Holywell Spring in the Malvern Hills, which was to become a favourite of the British Royal Family through to the present day. Great Malvern Genealogical Records
http://forebears.co.uk/england/worcestershire/great United Kingdom Genealogy Archives http://ukga.org/england/Worcestershire/towns/Malve |
OTHER NATURAL SPRING WELLS
A little way from Surrey, closer to Wales, is- HOLYWELL, Malvern Spring Water Malvern water is a natural spring water from the Malvern Hills on the border of the counties of Herefordshire and Worcestershire in England In the 1850s Malvern Water was bottled by John and William Burrow at the Bottling Works Spring in Robson Ward's yard on Belle Vue Terrace in Great Malvern. Bottling ceased here in the 1950s and the former bottling works are now furniture showrooms. Water for the Bottling Works Spring is piped from St Ann's Well. Malvern Hills, a chain of hills along the mutual border of Worcestershire and Herefordshire Heritage http://holywellmalvernspringwater.co.uk/heritage/ Malvern Hills http://www.malvernwaters.co.uk/nationalparks.asp? Malvern Water is now exclusively bottled by the Holywell Water Company Ltd under the name Holywell Malvern Spring Water. The major bottling plant was located in Colwall and owned by the Coca-Cola Corporation and was marketed under the original brand of Schweppes who began bottling it on a commercial scale in 1850. Malvern Hills Ascent to Worcester Beacon via
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Samuel Orchart Beeton
Samuel Beeton
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Samuel Orchart Beeton was born in London on May 2,
1831. When he was twenty-one as "boy-editor-publisher, he took Fleet street by storm." He founded, edited, and published The Boys' Own Magazine from 1855 to 1890, was the first and most influential boys' magazine. Samuel Beeton http://www.ulib.niu.edu/badndp/beeton_samuel.html Samuel Beeton's Christmas Annual was a paperback magazine printed in England yearly between 1860 and 1898, founded by Samuel Orchart Beeton. The November 1887 issue contained a novel by Arthur Conan Doyle entitled A Study in Scarlet which introduced the characters Sherlock Holmes and his friend Watson http://www.bestofsherlock.com/beetons-christmas-annual.htm Magazines for collectors at London book fair https://magforum.wordpress.com/tag/samuel-beeton/
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Jane Austen's World
This Jane Austen blog brings Jane Austen, her novels, and the Regency Period alive through food, dress, social customs, and other 19th C. historical details related to this topic. http://janeaustensworld.wordpress.com/original-sources/ |
West Norwood Cemetery
Headstone of Isabella & Samuel Beeton
London’s Magnificent Seven Victorian Cemeteries
Highgate Cemetery There are approximately 170,000 people buried in around 53,000 graves at Highgate Cemetery Search Burial Records- West http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page East http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page Kensal Green Claimed to be “the most distinguished” of the seven by original architect Hugh Meller. It was the first to be built in 1832 Search Burial Records http://www.deceasedonline.com/servlet/GSDOSearc West Norwood This cemetery is purported to have been the most fashionable of the seven, gaining it the title “millionaire’s cemetery”. Search Burial Records http://portal.lambeth.gov.uk/cemetery/GraveOwners http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page Abney Park The cemetery is named after Sir Thomas Abney, who served as Lord Mayor of London in 1700–01 Search Burial Records http://www.devsys.co.uk/ap/ Tower Hamlets Tower Hamlets his closed as a cemetery since 1966 due to disrepair. Bombed 5 times in WWII Search Burial Records http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page Nunhead It is perhaps the least famous and celebrated of the Seven. In the cemetery were reinterred remains removed, in 1867 and 1933, from the site of the demolished St Christopher le Stocks church in the City of London. Search Burial Records http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page Brompton Cemetery Is in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. The site, previously market gardens, was 39 acres in area. Brompton Cemetery was designed by architect, Benjamin Baud with at its centre a modest domed chapel dated 1839 Search Burial Records https://www.deceasedonline.com/servlet/GSDOSear |
Isabella Beeton's
Reference Books
Reference Books
The Encyclopedia of Domestic Economy 1844 -Thomas Webster http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/lookupname?key=Webster Modern Cookery for Private Families by Eliza Acton (1845) https://archive.org/stream/moderncookeryfo00actogoog#page/n5/mode/2up Louis Eustache Ude, 'The French Cook" (1813) https://archive.org/stream/frenchcook01udegoog#page/n5/mode/2up |