Comments on: An afternoon visiting Mrs Beeton http://eyedropper.co.uk/2006/10/15/an-afternoon-visiting-mrs-beeton/ Who do you believe, me or your own eyes? - Groucho Marx Mon, 15 Nov 2010 16:23:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Sian Lynch http://eyedropper.co.uk/2006/10/15/an-afternoon-visiting-mrs-beeton/#comment-5772 Mon, 15 Nov 2010 16:23:11 +0000 http://eyedropper.wordpress.com/2006/10/15/an-afternoon-visiting-mrs-beeton/#comment-5772 I’m currently doing my dissertation on Mrs Beeton and how advice literature was effective in creating a gender and class change within the middle class, after stumbling across your site, it brings me a lot closer to the woman i’m writing about, rather than just a cookery book!

]]> By: eileen mcdonald http://eyedropper.co.uk/2006/10/15/an-afternoon-visiting-mrs-beeton/#comment-5532 Sun, 03 Jan 2010 15:17:20 +0000 http://eyedropper.wordpress.com/2006/10/15/an-afternoon-visiting-mrs-beeton/#comment-5532 hi there my great grandmother was elizabeth anne beeton i have always been led to beleive me and my sister were descendants of mrs isobella beeton i would love to find the connection our great grandmother elizabeth anne beeton who died i think in pelton county durham when our grandfather william burnip and his sister sarah were very young beeton was her maiden name i think we also have maysons in our family and our mother is the absolute image of isabella beeton the likeness is so amazing she was her double anyone with any info please contact me on my email which is gotnmac@yahoo.co.uk

]]> By: D'Arcy White http://eyedropper.co.uk/2006/10/15/an-afternoon-visiting-mrs-beeton/#comment-5351 Thu, 11 Jun 2009 02:20:51 +0000 http://eyedropper.wordpress.com/2006/10/15/an-afternoon-visiting-mrs-beeton/#comment-5351 Mayson had a daughter named Edith Audrey Levick (nee Beeton).

]]> By: Alan J Sharkey http://eyedropper.co.uk/2006/10/15/an-afternoon-visiting-mrs-beeton/#comment-5041 Tue, 08 Jul 2008 10:14:47 +0000 http://eyedropper.wordpress.com/2006/10/15/an-afternoon-visiting-mrs-beeton/#comment-5041 My late wife was the grand-daughter of Annie Beeton, and therefore a cousin of Isabella’s husband Sam and of their children. The details are shown in my family tree on Genes Reunited. I’d like to know if there are any surviving family from the marraige – I believe that Mayson had a daughter called Belle.

]]> By: Robert http://eyedropper.co.uk/2006/10/15/an-afternoon-visiting-mrs-beeton/#comment-5003 Sun, 24 Feb 2008 03:50:38 +0000 http://eyedropper.wordpress.com/2006/10/15/an-afternoon-visiting-mrs-beeton/#comment-5003 I have just been introduced to Household Management and love it! I have posted several times about it and find it fascinating. Your story about the fox is a bit creepy. Maybe it was trying to show you a turtle hiding somewhere. You know, for soup. Like in the book.

]]> By: Wendy http://eyedropper.co.uk/2006/10/15/an-afternoon-visiting-mrs-beeton/#comment-714 Tue, 22 May 2007 04:47:03 +0000 http://eyedropper.wordpress.com/2006/10/15/an-afternoon-visiting-mrs-beeton/#comment-714 We just saw Isabella Beeton today having recodred it last night. Although I live in Canada I was brought up quite near West Norwood –never even realised there was a cemetary there.
Thanks for yr little jaunt–loved reading abt it –Fascinating abt the 2 boys–that’s who I wanted to know more abt–I’m glad they survisved and hope they had issue too.
Lovely pictures

]]> By: Gina http://eyedropper.co.uk/2006/10/15/an-afternoon-visiting-mrs-beeton/#comment-683 Sat, 19 May 2007 19:32:18 +0000 http://eyedropper.wordpress.com/2006/10/15/an-afternoon-visiting-mrs-beeton/#comment-683 Thank you for sharing this tale of finding Mrs. Beeton’s resting place – all by itself it’s quite an interesting story. The photos are lovely too. It was like taking a little day trip — all the way from Canada to England. Thank you kindly.

]]> By: Jude Churchman http://eyedropper.co.uk/2006/10/15/an-afternoon-visiting-mrs-beeton/#comment-185 Wed, 14 Mar 2007 21:14:20 +0000 http://eyedropper.wordpress.com/2006/10/15/an-afternoon-visiting-mrs-beeton/#comment-185 Why is Mrs Beeton interesting to us, mere middle of the road mums and home makers (which we are, regardless of whether we are professional ‘housewives’ or not’). Personally, I’m fascinated by any documentary evidence I can get of women who were pioneering in the sense that they didn’t lay themsleves flat to the Victorian ‘Icon’ of submissive ‘woman’. Women and their courage will always shine, whatever the era, but I do think history has inked us with it’s ‘dark’ periods….and I find it an inspiration to read about those who revfused to hide their lights under bushels!!!!!

]]> By: Elizabeth Saxton http://eyedropper.co.uk/2006/10/15/an-afternoon-visiting-mrs-beeton/#comment-184 Wed, 18 Oct 2006 00:29:32 +0000 http://eyedropper.wordpress.com/2006/10/15/an-afternoon-visiting-mrs-beeton/#comment-184 Oh isn’t the internet a wondrous thing? Here I am, it’s 11.23pm and my husband really is working late at the office and there’s no point my going to bed only to be woken up again when he returns…well I’ll give it another hour…so I thought I’d google Mrs Beeson in the light of last night’s drama/documentary. I really wanted to know if her 2 surviving sons saw adulthood, given that they were orphaned at 12 and 14 and that the suggestion of the drama seemed to be that they themselves were probably infected with syphilis. I came across West Norwood cemetery’s site which provides a detailed account of her life, included dates of Orchant’s and Mayson Moss Beeton’s birth and death. I then started thinking that it might be interesting to visit the Beeton grave site and the next thing I know I’m stumbling across your account of your very recent visit. Like you say, a strange coincidence: maybe you were meant to find the grave site and maybe I wasn’t! Perhaps the Beetons are starting to tire of all those visitors stomping all over the place and thought they’d cut to the chase. “We’re over here! Yes okay take a few photos if you must and then please just go away and leave us alone…” Still, I feel a strange urge to visit the National Portrait Gallery, ha.

It’s a pity not more is known about her sons, I can’t seem to find anything much on the internet. It’s a comfort to know they outlived their parents by many years, strange that they both died in the same year, 1947. I’m not really sure why I care but I have two sons of my own, both small and 2 years separating them. I found myself wondering what kind of life Orchart and Mayson had had after their mother died. I had been thinking of buying the Short Life and Long Times of Mrs Beeton in case it threw any further light on the matter but have been deterred by readers’ reviews on Amazon.

I’m suddenly feeling a bit weary. I think that’s quite enough waffle for one night. Time to retire. Thank you and goodnight.

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