Eye - 06 February 2015

From recipes to Light

Mysterious Husband – A Novel. In Four Volumes. First Edition 1801. | Photo: Courtesy of Chawton House Library.

Restoration and recipes

Quaker cookery books dating back to the 1700s are among thousands of volumes in need of restoration work.

Chawton House Library in Hampshire is a research and learning centre for the study of early women’s writing from 1600 to 1830. It is housed in the manor house once owned by Jane Austen’s brother, Edward Austen Knight.

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