Dinner for Dickens - Rossi-Wilcox Susan M.
Dinner for Dickens - Rossi-Wilcox Susan M. Catherine, the wife of Charles Dickens, was herself an author, but of just one book: What Shall we Have for Dinner? As the title indicates, it was a cookery…
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Dinner for Dickens - Rossi-Wilcox Susan M.
Catherine, the wife of Charles Dickens, was herself an author, but of just one book: What Shall we Have for Dinner? As the title indicates, it was a cookery book, in fact a pamphlet containing many suggested menus for meals of varying complexity together with a few recipes. Satisfactorily Answered by Numerous Bills of Fare for from Two to Eighteen Persons.
In this book, Susan Rossi-Wilcox has investigated the life of Catherine Dickens, the domestic arrangements of the Dickens family, the composition of this menu-book and how the various changes in succeeding editions reflect both Catherine's own development and the state of play in Victorian cookery, entertainment and food supply. It went through several editions after 1851, under the authorial pseudonym of 'Lady Maria Clutterbuck' with a brief introduction that was, commentators aver, the work of Charles Dickens himself. At the same
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