Samuel Orchart Beeton

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 was clever enough to realise that it would sell and the underlying message of the story underwrote his politics.

She began writing for The Englishwoman's Domestic Magazine, and contributed to the growing success of the business.

The title was merged to "The Queen: The Ladies Newspaper and Court Chronicle" in 1864,[5] although Beeton had sold his interest in 1862 to Serjeant Cox.

The 2006 TV drama The Secret Life of Mrs Beeton, based in part on Kathryn Hughes' biography The Short Life & Long Times of Mrs Beeton, implied that Isabella Beeton suffered from syphilis contracted from Samuel, and that this could have led to her early death and those of her first two children, and an alleged number of early miscarriages, although there is no evidence for this speculation.