Isabella Beeton was born Isabella Mary Mayson (18361865).
After marrying a London publisher, she wrote domestic columns and
translated French texts. Her first work was published when she was
twenty-two. She died at the age of twenty-five of an infection she
contracted during the birth of her fourth child.
Sarah A. Chrisman is the author of Victorian Secrets and
This Victorian Life, as well as the editor of True Ladies & Proper
Gentlemen. Alongside her husband, Gabriel, she gives presentations
on nineteenth-century fashion and culture. She resides in Port
Townsend, Washington.
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