Cookery Books - The Story of Eliza Rundell and John Murray

Eliza Acton wrote a collection of poems, which had been reasonably successful. She went back to her publisher, mister longman, and said, ho'd hear hear of my poems when you published them? And he said, no, you know, i'm not interested in poetry. No one reads poetry any more. What i want is a cookery book. Eliza was completely shocked by this, because you didn't really ask her, a middle class woman, a well haled woman, to produce a cookbook. The whole family had declared bankrupt that the whole home had been sold at auction. Here we have still the details of this case where eliza's father fled