![]() | Selections from Eliza Leslie Eliza Leslie (1787-1858) wrote in several genres and published books of juvenile fiction as well as several books on domesticity, which include Directions for Cookery , one of the most popular nineteenth-century American cookbooks. Etta M. Madden is a professor of English at Missouri State University. She is the coeditor, with Martha Finch, of Eating in Eden: Food and American Utopias (Nebraska 2006) and the author of Bodies of Life: Shaker Literature and Literacies . |
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