WOMEN ADVISING WOMEN

Advice Books, Manuals and Journals for Women, 1450-1837

Part 6: Sources from the Brotherton Library, University of Leeds

Contents of Reels

REEL 1

Anon

Adam’s luxury and Eve’s cookery.

1744.

Anon

Two fifteenth century cookery-books.

Thomas Austin, editor. Harl Mss 279 & 4016. 1888.

Baillie, Lady

Grizel The household book of …, 1692-1733.

Robert Scott-Moncrieff, W S, editor. 1911.

Anon

The Bath cookery book.

c.1780.

REEL 2

Battam, Anne

A collection of scarce and valuable receipts.

1750.

Battam, Anne

The lady’s assistant in the oeconomy of the table.

2nd ed. 1759.

Blencowe, Anne

W Receipt book, 1694.

Introduction by George Saintsbury. 1925.

Anon

A book of fruits and flowers, 1653.

Introduction and glossary by C Anne Wilson. 1984

Boorde, Andrew

The fyrste boke of the introduction of knowledge made by Andrew Boorde … A compendyous
regiment, or A dyetary of helth.

16c. 1870

REEL 3

Bradley, Martha

The British housewife.

2 vols. 1756

REEL 4

Bradley, Richard

The country housewife, and lady’s director.
6th ed. 1736

Bradley, Richard

Survey of the ancient husbandry and gardening.

1725

Bradshaw, Penelope
Bradshaw’s valuable family companion.
12th ed. 1752

Bradshaw, Penelope
Bradshaw’s valuable family jewel.

5th ed. 1749

Anon

The British jewel, or complete housewife’s best companion.

1785

Brooks, Catharine

The complete English cook; or prudent housewife.

2nd ed. 1762

Brooks, Catharine

The experienced English housekeeper.

1765

REEL 5

Carter, Charles

The compleat city and country cook: or, Accomplish’d housewife.

1732

Carter, Charles

The London and country cook: or, Accomplished housewife.

3rd ed. 1749

Carter, Susannah

The frugal housewife, or, Complete woman cook.

1795

Cartwright, Charlotte
The lady’s best companion.

1789

Cleland, Elizabeth

New and easy method of cookery.

1759

REEL 6

Anon

A closet for ladies and gentlewomen.

1627

Anon

A closet for ladies and gentlewomen.

1644

Cobbett, William

Cottage economy.

1822

Cole, Mary

The lady’s complete guide; or, cookery in all its branches (bound with)

The complete brewer (and)

The family physician.

1788

REEL 7

Collingwood, Francis and Woollams, John
The universal cook, and city and country housekeeper.

1792

Anon

The complete family-piece: and, country gentleman, and farmer’s best guide.

2nd ed.1737

REEL 8

Courtin, Antoine de
Rules of civility; or, certain ways of deportment observed among all persons of quality upon
several occasions.

1685

Cromwell, Elizabeth
The court and kitchen of Elizabeth, commonly called Joan Cromwell.

1664

Culpeper, Nicholas

The English physician.

1790

Davies, John

The innkeeper and butler’s guide, or, a directory in the making and managing of British wines …

1808

REEL 9

Defoe, Daniel

The family instructor.

14th ed. 1755

Digby, Kenelm, Sir

Choice and experimented receipts in physick and chirurgery.

1675

Digby, Kenelm, Sir

The closet.

1671

Eales, Mary

The compleat confectioner: or, the art of candying and preserving.

1733

Eales, Mary

Mrs Mary Eales’s receipts.

1718

REEL 10

Eaton, Mary

The cook and housekeeper’s complete & universal dictionary.

1822

Evelyn, John Acetaria.

A discourse of sallets.

2nd ed. 1706

Farley, John T

The London art of cookery, and housekeepers’ complete assistant.

4th ed. 1787

REEL 11

Fisher, Lydia

The prudent housewife, or compleat English cook.

24th ed. 1788

Frazer, Mrs

The practice of cookery, pastry and confectionary.

4th ed. 1804

Frazer, Mrs

The practice of cookery, pastry, pickling and preserving, etc.

1791

Glasse, Hannah

The art of cookery, made plain and easy.

2nd ed. 1747

REEL 12

Glasse, Hannah

The servant’s directory, or house-keeper’s companion.

1760

Kent, Elizabeth Grey, Countess of
A choice manual of rare & select secrets in physick and chyrurgery.

1653

Kent, Elizabeth Grey, Countess of
A true gentlewoman’s delight … all manner of cookery.

1653

Hammond, Elizabeth
Modern domestic cookery.

1816

Harrison, Sarah

The house-keeper’s pocket-book.

6th ed. 1757

Haslehurst, Priscilla

The family friend, or, housekeeper’s instructor.

1802

Haywood, Eliza

A new present for a servant-maid: containing rules for moral conduct …

1771

REEL 13

Henderson, William A
The housekeeper’s instructor; or, universal family cook.

6th ed. 1795

Hill, John

The family herbal.

1812

Hill, John

The virtues of honey in preventing many of the worst disorders …

1760

Holland, Mary

The complete economical cook, and frugal housewife, a new system of domestic cookery.

6th ed. 1829

REEL 14

Holland, Mary

The modern family receipt book.

1825

Honeywood, Lydia

The cook’s pocket-companion, and complete family-guide.

1760

Hudson, Mrs & Donat, Mrs
The new practice of cookery, pastry, baking and preserving.

1804

Irwin, Deborah

The housewife’s guide.

1830

Jackson, Sarah

The director, or, young woman’s best companion.

1754

Johnson, Mary Madam

Johnson’s present: or, the best instructions for young women … with a summary of the late Marriage Act. 1754

REEL 15

Kettilby, Mary

A collection of above three hundred receipts in cookery, physick and surgery.

1714

King, William

The art of cookery, in imitation of Horace’s poetry.

c.1708

Kitchiner, William

Apicius redivivus, or, the cooks oracle.

1817

Kitchiner, William

The housekeeper’s ledger.

1824

Laurence, John

The clergy-man’s recreation: showing the pleasure and the profit of the art of gardening.
5th ed.

bound with:

The gentleman’s recreation: or the second part of the art of gardening improved.

2nd ed. 1717

Laurence, John

The fruit-garden kalender.

1718

Lawson, W

The country housewife’s garden (bound with) Markham, G, The way to get wealth.

1676

REEL 16

Lemery, Louis

A treatise of all sorts of foods, both animal and vegetable also of drinkables.

1745

M, W

The Queen’s closet opened.

1655

Marshall, Elizabeth

The young ladies’ guide in the art of cookery.

1777

Martin, Sarah

The new experienced English housekeeper.

1795

REEL 17

Mason, Charlotte

The ladies assistant for regulating and supplying her table …

1775

Massialot, Francois

The court and country cook.

1702

Melroe, Eliza

An economical and new method of cookery.

1798

REEL 18

Meyrick, William

The new family herbal.

1790

Moore, Isabella

The useful and entertaining family miscellany.

1772

Moxon, Elizabeth

English housewifry exemplified.

Early ed. 1741

Moxon, Elizabeth

English housweifry exemplified.

Later ed. 1800

Murrell, John

A daily exercise for ladies and gentlewomen.

1617

REEL 19

Nott, John

The cook’s and confectioner’s dictionary: or, the accomplish’d housewife’s companion.

1723

Parkes, Frances B

Domestic duties; or, instructions to young married ladies.

1825

Anon

Patents for inventions … relating to cooking, bread-making, and the preparation of confectionery, 1634-1866.

1873

Anon

Patents for inventions … relating to tea, coffee, chicory, chocolate, cocoa, etc, 1704-1866.

1877

REEL 20

Pauli, Simon

A treatise on tobacco, tea, coffee & chocolate.
D James, translation.

1746

Peckham, Ann

The complete English cook, or,prudent housewife.

2nd ed. 1773

Phillips, Sarah

The ladies handmaid, or, a compleat system of cookery on the principles of elegance & frugality.

1758

Plumptre, Annabella
Domestic management, or, the healthful cookery-book.

1810

REEL 21

Price, Elizabeth

The new book of cookery, or, Every woman a perfect cook.

1780

Raffald Elizabeth

The experienced English housekeeper.

1769

Robertson, Hannah

The young ladies’ school of arts.

4th ed. 1777

Rundell, Maria E K

A new system of domestic cookery formed upon the principles of economy, and adapted to the use of private families.

1806

REEL 22

Rundell, Maria E K

The new family receipt-book.

1810

Russell, Elizabeth

The complete family cook.

1800

Shackleford, Anne

The modern art of cookery improved.

1767

REEL 23

Simpson, John

A complete system of cookery.

1806

Smith, Alice

A new book of cookery.

1781

REEL 24

Smith, Eliza

The compleat housewife, or, accomplished gentlewoman’s companion.

6th ed. 1734

Smith, Mrs

The female economist.

2nd ed. 1810

Smith, Mary

The complete house-keeper and professional cook.

1786

Tillinghast, Mary

Rare and excellent receipts. Experienced and taught.

1690

Anon

The toilet of Flora.

1779

REEL 25

Tyron, Thomas

The good house-wife made a doctor.

2nd ed. 1692

Tusser, Thomas

Five hundreth pointes of good husbandrie.

1590

Wood, Mary

The history of Mary Wood, the housemaid; footman; cottage cook; Sunday school; Hester Wilmot or, the new gown; The two soldiers; The good mother’s legacy; ‘Tis all for the best, or the story of Mrs Simpson. 2nd ed.

1800

Anon

The young woman’s companion, or female instructor.

1820

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