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Selections from Eliza Leslie.
Title:
Selections from Eliza Leslie.
Author:
Leslie, Eliza.
ISBN:
9780803238091
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (361 pages)
Series:
Legacies of Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers
Contents:
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Editor's Introduction -- A Note on the Text -- Fiction -- The Travelling Tin-Man -- Mrs. Washington Potts -- The Settlers -- Eliza Farnham, or The Love Letters -- Mr. and Mrs. Woodbridge: a Story of Domestic Life -- Nothing Morally Wrong -- Nonfiction -- Seventy-Five Receipts for Pastry,Cakes, and Sweetmeats: An Excerpt -- Black Cake, or Plum Cake -- Spunge Cake -- Almond Cake -- French Almond Cake -- Maccaroons -- Domestic French Cookery: An Excerpt -- Preface -- Miscellaneous Receipts -- American Girl's Book, or Occupation for Play Hours: An Excerpt from Part III,"Amusing Work-Pincushions" -- A Strawberry -- A Basket Pincushion -- A Bunch of Hearts -- The Elephant -- The Ladies' Guide to True Politeness and Perfect Manners, or Miss Leslie's Behavior Book: An Excerpt -- Letters -- Conduct to Literary Women -- Notes -- Chronology of Eliza Leslie'sPublished Works -- Selected Bibliography.
Abstract:
Eliza Leslie (1787-1858) wrote in several genres and published books of juvenile fiction as well as several books on domesticity, which include Directions for Cookery, one of the most popular nineteenth-century American cookbooks. Etta M. Madden is a professor of English at Missouri State University. She is the coeditor, with Martha Finch, of Eating in Eden: Food and American Utopias (Nebraska 2006) and the author of Bodies of Life: Shaker Literature and Literacies.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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