Show Notes

Eleanor and Courtney discuss the life of cookery revolutionary, Eliza Acton.

Transcript here.

Read Eliza Acton's Work

• UPenn's Online Books Page featuring all digitized editions of her work
• Poems (1826)
• Modern Cookery (1845)

Resources for this episode included:

• Asa Briggs. Victorian Things
• Sheila Hardy. The Real Mrs Beeton: The Story of Eliza Acton (would not recommend tbh)
• Elizabeth Ray’s “Acton, Eliza (1799-1859)” in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
• and this article in The Guardian

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