Victorian Scribblers Courtney Floyd and Eleanor Dumbill

Show Notes
Eleanor and Courtney discuss the life of cookery revolutionary, Charles Elmé Francatelli.

Transcript here.

Sources
Charles Elmé Francatelli. A Plain Cookery Book For The Working Classes. London: Bosworth and Harrison, 1867 https://archive.org/details/plaincookerybook0000fran 
—.The Cook's Guide And Housekeeper's & Butler's Assistant : A Practical Treatise On English And Foreign Cookery In All Its Branches, Containing Plain Instructions For Pickling And Preserving Vegetables, Fruits, Game, &C, The Curing Of Hams And Bacon, The Art Of Confectionery And Ice-Making, And The Arrangement Of Desserts, With Valuable Directions For The Preparation Of Proper Diet For Invalids, Also For A Variety Of Wine-Cups And Epicurean Salads, American Drinks, And Summer Beverages. London: Bentley, 1865 https://archive.org/details/b21526850 
—. The Modern Cook; A Practical Guide To The Culinary Art In All Its Branches: Comprising, In Addition To English Cookery, The Most Approved And Recherché Systems Of French, Italian, And German Cookery; Adapted As Well For The Largest Establishments As For The Use Of Private Families. London: Bentley, 1877 (25th edition). https://archive.org/details/McGillLibrary-95770-33 
—. Popular cookery: being a reprint of a pamphlet entitled, "Cookery for the Lancashire operatives, " gratuitously circulated during the cotton famine, in 1863. By an Englishman. Manchester: A. Ireland & Co, 1871. http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100049731949.0x000001#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=0&xywh=-1%2C-146%2C1345%2C2432 
—. The Royal Confectioner, English And Foreign: A Practical Treatise On The Art Of Confectionary In All Its Branches, Comprising Ornamental Confectionary Artistically Developed ... Also, The Art Of Ice-Making, And The Arrangement And General Economy Of Fashionable Desserts. London: Chapman and Hall, 1874 https://archive.org/details/b20409473 
Lauren Gilbert. Cook at Buckingham Palace: Charles Elme' Francatelli. https://englishhistoryauthors.blogspot.com/2019/01/cook-at-buckingham-palace-charles-elme.html 
Catherine Gore (as Albany Poyntz). ‘The French Cook’. Bentley’s Miscellany Jan 1 1842, pp. 606-13
Patricia Bixler Reber. Queen Victoria's chef Charles Elme Francatelli. http://researchingfoodhistory.blogspot.com/2017/02/queen-victorias-chef-charles-elme.html 
Colin Smythe. Charles Elmé Francatelli, Crockford’s, and the Royal Connection.https://colinsmythe.co.uk/charles-elme-francatelli-crockfords-and-the-royal-connection/ 
Mary Ellen Snodgrass. Encyclopaedia of Kitchen History. New York: Taylor and Francis, 2004
Henry Turner Waddy. The Devonshire Club and Crockford’s London: E. Nash, 1919

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Show Notes
TL;DL we're hoping to have an episode for you in mid-June!

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Show Notes
Courtney and Eleanor discuss some of the major historical events, writers, and genres that shaped the early to mid-Victorian period.

Transcript here.

Resources for this episode included:


Sally Mitchell’s Victorian Britain: An Encyclopedia
Timeline of Victorian Legislation on Victorian Web
Stats from At the Circulating Library
Alexandre Dumas’s publications
The Oxford (or High Church) Movement
Read The Lifted Veil at the George Eliot Archive
Read open access scholarship about The Lifted Veil on George Eliot Scholars

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Courtney's fiction podcast! The Way We Haunt Now is a lighthearted horror audio drama about friendship, found family, and fighting the narratives that try to define us – even in the afterlife. One of the central characters is Victorian ghost, Frances "Frankie" Matilda Summerson.

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Eleanor and Courtney discuss the life of cookery revolutionary, Eliza Acton.

Transcript here.

Read Eliza Acton's Work


UPenn's Online Books Page featuring all digitized editions of her work
Poems (1826)
Modern Cookery (1845)

Resources for this episode included:


Asa Briggs. Victorian Things
Sheila Hardy. The Real Mrs Beeton: The Story of Eliza Acton (would not recommend tbh)
Elizabeth Ray’s “Acton, Eliza (1799-1859)” in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
and this article in The Guardian

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Horse Girls, a podcast in which hosts Alex, Jenna, and Tim take a canter down memory lane to revisit all of those horse girl books they read growing up. Find the pod on Twitter @HorseGirlsCast

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Show Notes
In the season five premiere, Courtney and Eleanor discuss some of the major historical events, writers, and genres that shaped the beginning of the Victorian period.

Transcript here.

Resources for this episode included:


Sally Mitchell’s Victorian Britain: An Encyclopedia
Richard Altick’s Victorian People and Ideas
Timeline of Victorian Legislation on Victorian Web
Pickwick Papers and the Development of Serial Fiction on Victorian Web
Cliffhangers on Victorian Web
Stats from At the Circulating Library
Eleanor’s entry on Factory Acts

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Check out long-time listener Art Kilmer's Bookshelf Odyssey podcast! The podcast can be found at www.bookshelfodyssey.com and you can also find it on YouTube!

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Show Notes
A long overdue trailer as we set out on season five.

Music:


String Quartet no. 2 in B minor - II. Minuetto moderato, performed by Steve's Bedroom Band