![]() Her second novel, Frieda: The Original Lady Chatterley, was a Times 2018 Book of the Year. Her debut novel, The Joyce Girl, won the Impress Prize and was a Guardian Reader's Pick. ![]() ‘The Language of Food’ is Annabel’s celebratory re-telling of the lost story of a woman who pioneered cooking as we know it.Īnnabel Abbs is the rising star of biographical historical novels. In this talk, Annabel will also explain how she found Eliza Acton in a box of books, how she researched a woman who left no letters or diaries, and what we can learn about the past through the joy of eating and cooking. Join Annabel Abbs discussing her new book, and discover the life of the author behind Britain’s first cookbook for the domestic reader. Over a period of ten years – and with the help of a little-known woman called Ann Kirby - Acton transformed into a domestic goddess and wrote a book that changed food writing forever. When a set of her poetry was rejected for publishing in the 1830s, Eliza Acton was asked instead to write a cookbook. ![]() The Language of Food - Eliza Acton About this Event ![]()
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