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The British Housewife

by Gilly Lehman
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This is the first full-scale study of the world of eighteenth-century British cookery books, their authors, their readers and their recipes. For many decades, we have treated them as collectables - often fetching thousands at auction and in rare-book catalogues - or as quaint survivors, while ignoring their true history or what they have to tell us about the Georgians at table. The publication of cookery books was pursued more vigorously in Britain than in any other west European country: it was also the genre that attracted more women writers to its ranks - indeed, perhaps the very first woman to earn her living from her writing in modern Britain was Hannah Woolley, author of The Cook's Guide and other works.
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Publisher: Marion Boyars

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  • Release date: December 12, 2004

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  • ISBN: 9781909248007
  • File size: 2899 KB
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  • ISBN: 9781909248007
  • File size: 2899 KB
  • Release date: December 12, 2004

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Cooking & Food History Nonfiction

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English

This is the first full-scale study of the world of eighteenth-century British cookery books, their authors, their readers and their recipes. For many decades, we have treated them as collectables - often fetching thousands at auction and in rare-book catalogues - or as quaint survivors, while ignoring their true history or what they have to tell us about the Georgians at table. The publication of cookery books was pursued more vigorously in Britain than in any other west European country: it was also the genre that attracted more women writers to its ranks - indeed, perhaps the very first woman to earn her living from her writing in modern Britain was Hannah Woolley, author of The Cook's Guide and other works.
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Cooking & Food History Nonfiction
  • Details

    Publisher:
    Marion Boyars

    Kindle Book
    Release date: December 12, 2004

    OverDrive Read
    ISBN: 9781909248007
    File size: 2899 KB
    Release date: December 12, 2004

    EPUB ebook
    ISBN: 9781909248007
    File size: 2899 KB
    Release date: December 12, 2004

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  • Formats
    Kindle Book
    OverDrive Read
    EPUB ebook
  • Languages
    English