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Although this term might not be politically correct today, it well defines the women who shaped American cuisine throughout the 19th century and into the first quarter of the 20th: Child, Hale, Randolph, Leslie, Beecher, Harland, Corson, Farmer, Lincoln, Parloa and Rorer.

These remarkable women are well represented in this collection as they must and ought to be. They span the century. Their books went through hundreds of editions and they reached millions of households with their classes, articles and books. Not only were they recognized as culinary authorities, but they were also reformers active in all the major social and cultural events of their day: abolition, temperance, child welfare, women's rights, education, suffrage, social welfare, prison reform, poverty alleviation, immigration, consumer issues, diet, health and nutrition, medical reforms, labor issues, and contemporary religious and moral questions. They shared a major concern for the role of women, for their duties and responsibilities, as well as their rights, and for ways their workload could be lightened and "improved." They were writers, poets, philosophers, educators, editors and business women.

Their books dominate this collection as their lives and works did.

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