GAP FILLING (FCE)

Isabella Beeton, who    born in London in 1836,
is the most famous British woman cookery writer.
She was well educated and finished 1. --------------- education
in Heidelberg, 2. -------------- she learnt French and German.
In 1856 she married Sam Beeton, an enterprising young

publisher, and the following year  started contributing a column on various

household matters to his 'The Englishwoman's Domestic Magazine'.

3. ------------ was the first of the cheap women's magazines. It pioneered the problem

page and medical columns, and introduced dress-making patterns  4. ------------- France

to British readers.   5. ----------------  she was only 23 she edited 'Beeton's Book of Household Management'. This was an immense work, containing more 6. ---------------3,000 recipes as well as advice on instructing servants, nursing, legal matters, good manners and bringing  7. ---------------  babies. Many of the recipes  8. --------------- contributed by the readers of 'The English Woman's Domestic Magazine' and others were simply taken 9. -------------previous cookery writers. The chapters on specialist topics were written anonymously by a doctor, a lawyer and  10. --------------  experts.   11. ----------- even though Mrs Beeton 12. -------------- was not a creative cook, the editing work that she did on the book is a great achievement for 13. --------------- so young. She died 14. ---------------- the age of 28 after the birth of her fourth son.