Nicola Humble Books

????The last novel completed by Jane Austen before she died, unmarried, in her early forties, Persuasion is often thought to be the story of the author's own lost love.

Presents the history of Britain's culinary evolution through the cookery books which have inspired us over the course of a century, beginning with Mrs Beeton and leading to the rise of the celebrity TV chef.

Covering every aspect of food within literary texts, from experimental cook books to the sumptuous dinner parties at the heart of every Victorian Novel, The Literature of Food is the first comprehensive study of its kind and a must-buy for students on literature and food courses.