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Samuel Orchart Beeton

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This article is about the publisher. For the singer, see Sam Beeton.
Samuel Beeton in 1860
Samuel Beeton in 1860

Samuel Orchart Beeton (2 March 1830–6 June 1877)[1] was an English publisher, best known as the husband of Mrs Beeton (Isabella Mary Mayson) and publisher of Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management.[1]

Beeton's Boy's Own Magazine, 1855–1890, was the first and most influential boys' magazine.[2][3]

Beeton made money as the first British publisher of Uncle Tom's Cabin in 1852, securing the rights from the then-unknown Harriet Beecher Stowe. He launched The Englishwoman's Domestic Magazine, a pioneering serial for middle-class women, the same year. His Boy's Own Magazine, published in the UK from 1855 to 1890, was the first and most influential boys' magazine.[2][3]

Beeton married Isabella in 1856, and she contributed to the growing success of the business.[1] He founded Beeton's Christmas Annual paperback magazine in 1860.[4]

Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management was published in 1861. Beeton followed it with a series of other self-help textbooks, including Beeton's Book of Needlework, Beeton's Dictionary of Geography, Beeton's Book of Birds, Beeton's Book of poultry and domestic animals. Beeton's Book of Home Pets, Beeton's Book of Anecdote, Wit and Humour, Beeton's Dictionary of Natural History, and others. He also produced an edition of the works of Francis Bacon.

After Isabella died in 1865, his fortunes failed and he was obliged to sell the rights to the "Beeton" name to rival publishers and work for them for a salary. His last years were clouded by the tuberculosis from which he ultimately died.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c d Johannsen, Albert (1950). "Beeton, Samuel Orchart.". The House of Beadle & Adams and its Dime and Nickel Novels: The Story of a Vanished Literature. Vol. II. University of Oklahoma Press. pp. 32–3. {{cite book}}: External link in |chapterurl= (help); Unknown parameter |chapterurl= ignored (|chapter-url= suggested) (help)
  2. ^ a b Tosh, John. MASCULINITY, 1560-1918: MEN DEFINING MEN AND GENTLEMEN. Part 3: 1800-1918, Sources from the Bodleian Library, Oxford. Adam Matthew Publications.
  3. ^ a b Boy's Own Magazine
  4. ^ "Sotheby's e-catalogue for Beeton's Lot 151". p. 3. Retrieved 2010-07-09.

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