Who Were the Readers of Soyer’s Shilling Cookery for the People?
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1558/ppc.27810Keywords:
Alexis Soyer, culinary celebrities, Shilling Cookery for the People, social history, cookbook history, audience analysis, readability scale, stylistics, publishing history, cookbook genres, Food and Class, marketing, social justiceAbstract
This essay investigates the readership of SSC by examining a variety of internal and external evidence to try to determine to what extent SSC was bought by those for whom it was intended, and how suitable it was for them as readers.
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