Many of the recipes were copied from the most successful cookery books of the day, including Eliza Acton's "Modern Cookery for Private Families" (first published in 1845), Elizabeth Raffald's "The Experienced English Housekeeper" (originally published in 1769), Marie-Antoine Carême's "Le Pâtissier royal parisien" (1815), Hannah Glasse's "The Art of Cookery Made Plain and Easy" (1747), Maria Eliza Rundell's "A New System of Domestic Cookery" (1806), and the works of Charles Elmé Francatelli (1805–1876). This practice of Mrs Beeton's has in modern times repeatedly been described as plagiarism.