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Eliza Acton: Britain’s first modern cookery writer

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What Do We Know About Anne Kirby?

Anne kirby is a character we don't know very much about. She's, in the senses, she's down as a servant. But i used the fact that i didn't know anything about her worked to my advantage - it allowed me to explore other things that i knew were happening in that area. I wanted to look also at that gulf between the middle classes and extreme povertyof o the 18 thirties. So er, i may have got it wrong, and kirby may have, you know, very wealthy, but somehow i doubted. It gave me a chance to look at that juxtaposition between someone who lives off er near gruel, and some one

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