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Mrs. Beeton's Book of Household Management Christmas James Beard–nominated baker Renato PoliafitoAbout the Author 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