Hannah Wooley - was, Re: [Sca-cooks] How Big Tarts???

[Phil Troy/ G. Tacitus Adamantius]

Also sprach johnna holloway:
>I would argue that if we are going to use May and Digby (as we do for
>very valid reasons) that we also ought to be making more use of Hannah
>Woolley or Wolley. When I had my meeting with the people at EEBO earlier
>this month, I pointed out that we needed to get all of her books in all
>of their editions and printings filmed and then scanned. It seems a
>shame that the men are well represented and even republished in
>facsimiles, but the one woman author of the era is represented in
>facsimile only by a book of manners that she didn't even author!!!
>
>Johnnae llyn Lewis  Johnna Holloway

I agree, this would be a good thing. There was an html version of
Wooley's "The Cook's Guide" on the Web a while back, though, which,
while not perhaps as accurate as a facsimile (of course, a facsimile
is subject to any printer's errors the original may contain; it is
itself a transcription of sorts, after all), is better than nothing.

I believe I have a copy of it in MS Word, if anybody needs it.

Adamantius
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