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Janet Floyd is a senior lecturer in American studies at King¿s College in London, the author of Writing the Pioneer Women, and the coeditor of Domestic Space: Reading the Nineteenth-Century Interior. Laurel Forster is a senior lecturer in media studies at the University of Portsmouth, coeditor of British Culture and Society in 1970s Britain: The Lost Decade, and author of numerous articles on feminism and women¿s writing.

The authors bring together some of the disparate contexts and debates on recipes, in order to demonstrate the multiple ways in which the recipe illuminates the cultural worlds in which it appears and constitutes a textual form worthy of study in its own right.

This study of a broad range of responses to gold and silver mining in the late nineteenth century sets the literary writings of figures such as Mark Twain, Mary Hallock Foote, Bret Harte, and Jack London within the context of writing and representation produced by people involved in the industry: miners and journalists, as well as writers of folklore and song.

Focusing on a series of autobiographical texts, published and private, well known and obscure, this book examines the writing of domestic life on the 19th-century North American frontier. It explores domestic details in the autobiographical writing of British and Anglo-American female emigrants.

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This exciting collection of interdisciplinary essays explores the later decades of the nineteenth century in America - the immediate postbellum period, the Gilded Age, and the Progressive Era - as a time of critical change in the cultural visibility of women, as they made new kinds of appearances throughout American society. The essays show how, across the USA, it was fundamentally women who drove changes in their visibility forward, in group...