If Mrs Beeton had been alive today she would be in trouble for plagiarism on a shocking scale, the Guardian Hay festival heard yesterday. The image of the original domestic goddess and author of the ...

James Beeton and Leon Weber were victorious on Friday, with the pair winning Winmau Development Tour Events Six & Seven respectively, as the second weekend of the PDC’s Youth Darts Tour season ...

As the first real influencer in the domestic sphere, she made a difference to millions of women across the globe (Corbis/Getty) But who started our obsession with seeing what goes on behind the ...

I'm a little embarrassed to admit it, seeing as I'm supposed to know about these things, but until about this time last year, I had never heard of Mrs. Isabella Beeton, the woman considered by many to ...

In the moments before I step out to talk about Mrs Beeton at readings, I like to catch a peek at my audience. Peering out from behind a red velvet curtain or library bookshelf, depending on the ...

She was a slip of a girl, but there was nothing frail nor flimsy about Isabella Beeton, a witty and determined woman who refused to sit at home and enjoy a life of leisure. So she followed her ...

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’ “Masterpiece ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. In 1859, when she was 23 years old, Mrs Isabella Beeton published the first of 24 monthly supplements to the ...

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