Henry Cole, Edith Nicolls Clarke, ‘The National’, and Thomas Love Peacock

Authors

  • Bridget Ann Henisch Independent Scholar Author

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1558/ppc.28355

Keywords:

United Kingdom, social history, Henry Cole, Edith Nicollis Clarke, National Training School for Cookery, 19th Century, cooking skills, leisured classes, working classes, industrialization, gender roles

Abstract

Provides a history of the National Training School for Cookery established in 1874 the first of several such institutions that arose in that era which among other objectives intended to provide a route to a profession for the poor but which also catered to the leisured classes whose daughters and wives, although not needing employment, had need for education and purpose. The novelist Thomas Love Peacock is a link being the grandfather of Edith Nicols Clarke, who took over the School from the founder Henry Cole. 

Author Biography

  • Bridget Ann Henisch, Independent Scholar

    Bridget Ann Henisch is a food historian. Her study of the Christmas cake (Cakes and Characters) was published by Prospect Books; she has also written books about medieval food, most recently The Medieval Cook.

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Published

2015-02-01

Issue

PPC 102 (2015)

Section

Articles

How to Cite

Henry Cole, Edith Nicolls Clarke, ‘The National’, and Thomas Love Peacock. (2015). Petits Propos Culinaires, 92-99. https://doi.org/10.1558/ppc.28355