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Abbs, Annabel, author.
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Acton, Eliza, 1799-1859 -- Fiction.
Cooking, English -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction.
Cookbooks -- England -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction.
Female friendship -- Fiction.
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Miss Eliza's English...
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Miss Eliza's English kitchen [large type] : a novel of Victorian cookery and friendship / Annabel Abbs.
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Abbs, Annabel, author.
Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, 2022.
Subjects
Acton, Eliza, 1799-1859 -- Fiction.
Cooking, English -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction.
Cookbooks -- England -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction.
Female friendship -- Fiction.
ISBN:
9781432896065 (large print : paperback)
1432896067 (large print : paperback)
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Thorndike Press large print softcover romance and women's fiction.
P.S. (New York, N.Y.) (Thorndike)
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515 pages (large print) ; 22 cm.
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Large print edition.
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"In a novel perfect for fans of Hazel Gaynor's A Memory of Violets and upstairs-downstairs stories, Annabel Abbs, the award-winning author of The Joyce Girl, returns with the brilliant real-life story of Eliza Acton and her assistant as they revolutionized British cooking and cookbooks around the world. Before Mrs. Beeton and well before Julia Child, there was Eliza Acton, who changed the course of cookery writing forever. England, 1835. London is awash with thrilling new ingredients, from rare spices to exotic fruits. But no one knows how to use them. When Eliza Acton is told by her publisher to write a cookery book instead of the poetry she loves, she refuses - until her bankrupt father is forced to flee the country. As a woman, Eliza has few options. Although she's never set foot in a kitchen, she begins collecting recipes and teaching herself to cook. Much to her surprise she discovers a talent - and a passion - for the culinary arts. Eliza hires young, destitute Ann Kirby to assist her. As they cook together, Ann learns about poetry, love and ambition. The two develop a radical friendship, breaking the boundaries of class while creating new ways of writing recipes. But when Ann discovers a secret in Eliza's past, and finds a voice of her own, their friendship starts to fray. Based on the true story of the first modern cookery writer, Miss Eliza's English Kitchen is a spellbinding novel about female friendship, the struggle for independence, and the transcendent pleasures and solace of food."--
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