English cooking was systematized and made available to the middle classes by a series of popular books, their authors becoming household names. One of the first was Mrs Rundell's "A New System of Domestic Cookery", 1806; it went through sixty-seven editions by 1844, selling hundreds of thousands of copies in Britain and America. This was followed by Eliza Acton's "Modern Cookery for Private Families" 1845, which Bee Wilson has called "the greatest cookery book in our language", but "modern" only in a 19th-century sense.