ACTIVITY 3
Read the text below and think of the
word which best fits each space. Use
only ONE word in each gap. There is an
example at the beginning [
was]. Then check the correct
answers.
ISABELLA BEETON
Isabella
Beeton, whoborn in London
in 1836,
is the most
famous British woman cookery writer.
She was well
educated and finishededucation
in Heidelberg,she learnt
French and German.
In 1856 she
married Sam Beeton, an enterprising
young
publisher, and
the following yearcontributing a column on various
household
matters to his 'The Englishwoman's
Domestic Magazine'.
was the first of the cheap women's
magazines. It pioneered the problem
page and medical
columns, and introduced dress-making
patternsFrance
to British
readers.
she was only 23 she
edited 'Beeton's Book of Household Management'.
This was an immense work, containing
more3,000 recipes as well
as advice
on instructing servants, nursing, legal
matters, good manners and bringing
babies. Many of the recipescontributed by the
readers of 'The English
Woman's Domestic Magazine' and others
were simply takenprevious
cookery writers.
The chapters on
specialist topics were
anonymously by a doctor,
a lawyer
and
experts. But even
Mrs Beeton herself was
not a creative
cook, the editing work
that she did on the book
is a great achievement
for
so
young. She died
the age of 28 after the
birth of her fourth son.