The name Mrs Beeton has endured for well over a century, synonymous with all things reassuringly culinary, while her contemporary Agnes Bertha Marshall remains somewhat of an enigma. Both Isabella Beeton and Agnes Bertha Marshall lived within a short distance of each other in Pinner, worked in London, wrote about, and shared a passion for food, all just a couple of decades apart. While Isabella Beeton compiled one successful book of collected recipes, Agnes built a cookery empire, including a training school, the development of innovative kitchen equipment, a range of cooking ingredients, an employment agency and a successful weekly journal, as well as writing three incredibly popular recipe books. Mrs Beeton and Mrs Marshall: A Tale Of Two Victorian Cooks intrudes on the private lives of both these women, whose careers eclipsed two very different halves of the Victorian era. While there are similarities between the two, their narratives explore class and background, highlight the social and economic contrasts of the nineteenth century, the ascension of the cookery industry in general and the burgeoning power of suffragism. AUTHOR: Emma is a Fellow of The Royal Historical Society, Post-graduate Historian and Archaeologist, former senior museum professional & Award-Winning author of 13 food history books. She has appeared numerous times as a food history expert on documentaries and mainstream popular programmes for Channel 4, Channel 5, BBC1 and KBS-TV, Korea. She has lectured, delivered demonstrations and interactive talks online and across a variety of venues both nationally and internationally for The Guild of Food Writers, Bath Literature Festival, Stroud Literature Festival, 1 Royal Crescent Bath, Wakefield Rhubarb Festival, The Women's Institute, Tastemade, BBNY Group LLC, New York and been a regular interviewee on podcasts including English Heritage, Table Talk with Stefan Gates and Eat Your Heartland Out with former senator Capri Cafaro. Emma has regularly featured as a food history expert & author on BBC radio and Talk Radio Europe and written articles for English Heritage, BBC Food, Lancashire Life, BBC History Magazine, Daily Express, Daily Mail, Times Literary Supplement, Victorian Review, Lancashire Post and Love Food.com among others. 80 b/w illustrations
