Our own Julienne Gehrer will be featured at the Jane Austen House Museum’s Austen Wednesdays on November 25 at 2 pm! (The talk will also be available on their website or their YouTube channel for later viewing.)
From the Jane Austen House Museum~
THIS MONTH WE ARE DELIGHTED TO WELCOME FOOD HISTORIAN, JOURNALIST AND AUTHOR JULIENNE GEHRER IN CONVERSATION WITH OUR DIRECTOR, LIZZIE DUNFORD.
Julienne is the author of Dining with Jane Austen and the forthcoming Martha Lloyd’s Household Book: The Original Manuscript from Jane Austen’s Kitchen. Julienne has partnered with chefs on ‘A Jane Austen Literary Dinner’ and a ‘Cheese Tour of Jane Austen’s England.’
Read more at the Austen Wednesdays website. Can’t make it at that time! No worries. The talk will be recorded and available on their website or their YouTube channel.
From the publisher:
This is the first facsimile publication of ‘Martha Lloyd’s Household Book’, the manuscript cookbook of Jane Austen’s closest friend. Martha’s notebook is reproduced in a colour facsimile section with complete transcription and detailed annotation. Introductory chapters discuss its place among other household books of the eighteenth century. Martha Lloyd befriended a young Jane Austen and later lived with Jane, her sister Cassandra and their mother at the cottage in Chawton, Hampshire, where Jane wrote or revised her novels. Martha later married into the Austen family. Her collection features recipes and remedies handwritten during a period of over thirty years and includes the only surviving recipes from Mrs Austen and Captain Francis Austen, Jane’s mother and brother. There are many connections between Martha’s book and Jane Austen’s writing, including white soup from ‘Pride and Prejudice’ and the author’s favourites – toasted cheese and mead. The family, culinary and literary connections detailed in the introductory chapters of this work give a fascinating perspective on the time and manner in which both women lived, thanks to this extraordinary artefact passed down through the Austen family.
Publisher: Bodleian Library