In its heyday, ‘Mrs Beeton’s Book of Household Management’ was only outsold by the Bible. More than 160 years later, novelist Josie Lloyd reckons her cooking, cleaning, shopping and ...

"She was extraordinary really, people have an image of Mrs Beeton as an old matron, but in reality she was twenty three when she wrote the book, and she was far from chained to the stove," explained ...

Sophie Dahl explores the extraordinary life and times of her food heroine, Mrs Beeton ... And the contrast between reality and image plays out most tragically in the terrible undoing of the family.

A lively biographical film about the woman who might be called the Mother of the Modern Recipe, “The Secret Life of Mrs. Beeton” arrives here Sunday night as the latest offering of PBS ...

Sophie Dahl has signed up to present a new BBC Two documentary about Mrs Beeton. The Guardian reports that Sophie Dahl on Mrs Beeton will see Dahl test out some of the Victorian writer's recipes ...

The truth inside Mrs. Beeton’s own household . Originally published May 20, 2007 at 12:00 am Updated May 20, 2007 at 2:01 am ...

My introduction to the esteemed Mrs. Beeton was a quiet, carnation pink one, a galley copy of Kathryn Hughes's The Short Life and Long Times of Mrs. Beeton, published last spring by Knopf.

Sophie Dahl is to present a documentary about the life of pioneering cookery writer Mrs Beeton. The model turned TV star, whose own cookery show The Delicious Miss Dahl received lukewarm reviews ...

Far from happily chronicling Mrs. Beeton as a 19th century Betty Crocker, Hughes focused on the less idyllic aspects of her life, including the havoc wrought by her manically entrepreneurial husband.

SOPHIE DAHL will take to television screens tonight, in a documentary which follows the life of the legendary Victorian chef Mrs Beeton. "A few years ago I read a biography of Isabella Beeton and I ...