Ann Cook

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Standard Name: Cook, Ann
Birth Name: Ann
Married Name: Ann Cook
AC , whose work was first published in 1754, is one of the most imaginative cookery-book writers on record; her book includes poetry and story-telling.

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Reception Hannah Glasse
This book came to dominate its field. It was widely believed in the book-trade to be the work of a man. The publisher Edward Dilly in 1778 informed a gathering which included Samuel Johnson and...
Literary responses Hannah Glasse
This rival domestic writer, improbably but actually named Ann Cook , attacked HG (possibly for private and personal reasons) in her Professed Cookery, 1754, as deficient in exactly those qualities—practicality, truth to daily experience...

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Texts

Cook, Ann. Professed Cookery. White, 1754.