Janet Theophano - Eat my words: reading womens lives through the cookbooks they wrote

Letter found in a nineteenth-century manuscript receipt book. Collection of the author

Hopestill Bretts list of belongings brought to Horncroft. Courtesy of the Annenberg Rare Book and Manuscript Library, University of Pennsylvania

A map of the Lehigh Valley from Mrs. Pattersons manuscript receipt book. Courtesy, the Winterthur Library: Joseph Downs Collection of Manuscripts and Printed Ephemera

A drawing depicting the miners gathering in a saloon from Mrs. Pattersons manuscript receipt book.
Courtesy, the Winterthur Library: Joseph Downs Collection of Manuscripts and Printed Ephemera

Jewish housewife reading her cookbook as depicted in the Rochester Hadassah Cook Book.
Courtesy Rochester Hadassah

Contribution from an aristocrat to Lady Freschevilles opulent seventeenth-century receipt book.
Courtesy, the Winterthur Library: Joseph Downs Collection of Manuscripts and Printed Ephemera

Inscription on the inside front cover of Baileys Dictionarium belonging to the Darby family.
Courtesy of the Annenberg Rare Book and Manuscript Library, University of Pennsylvania

Inscription on the first page of Baileys Dictionarium belonging to the Darby family. Courtesy of the Annenberg Rare Book and Manuscript Library, University of Pennsylvania

Mary Madcaps signature and announcement I am. Courtesy of the Annenberg Rare Book and Manuscript Library, University of Pennsylvania

The words raspberries and strawberries copied in a nineteenth-century manuscript receipt book indicating someone practicing writing. Courtesy, the Winterthur Library: Joseph Downs Collection of Manuscripts and Printed Ephemera

Maternal commentary on the pages of the seventeenth-century Maddison manuscript receipt book. Courtesy of the Annenberg Rare Book and Manuscript Library, University of Pennsylvania

Mrs. Maddison reflects on her writing ability.
Courtesy of the Annenberg Rare Book and Manuscript Library, University of Pennsylvania

Lydia Grofton Jarviss manuscript receipt book copied out for me by my brother. Courtesy, the Winterthur Library: Joseph Downs Collection of Manuscripts and Printed Ephemera

List of discheveled booksin barn, for self education on the last page of Grofton Jarviss receipt book.
Courtesy, the Winterthur Library: Joseph Downs Collection of Manuscripts and Printed Ephemera

The poem Like Swallowes penned by Mrs. Maddison, the title copied by Mary Madcap. Courtesy of the Annenberg Rare Book and Manuscript Library, University of Pennsylvania

Multiple clipped newspaper recipes affixed with a straight pin in Marion Harlands Common-Sense in the Household (1871). Collection of the author

Marginalia from Mrs. Putnams receipt book (1854) critiquing the author. Courtesy of the Annenberg Rare Book and Manuscript Library, University of Pennsylvania

Mrs. Elizabeth Raffalds frontispiece portrait in The Experienced English Housekeeper. Courtesy of the Annenberg Rare Book and Manuscript Library, University of Pennsylvania

Frontispiece to Eliza Haywoods New Present for a Servant-Maid depicting a woman reading instructions from the cook book while cooking. This item is reproduced by permission of the Huntington Library, San Marino, California

A receipt how to make a Right Presbyterian in two days found in Catharine Cottons seventeenth-century cookery manuscript. Courtesy of the Annenberg Rare Book and Manuscript Library, University of Pennsylvania

A stereopticon slide debasing an Irish servant.
Courtesy, the Winterthur Library: Joseph Downs Collection of Manuscripts and Printed Ephemera