The Birth of the English Kitchen, 1600-1850

Tracing the emergence of the domestic kitchen from the 17th to the middle of the 19th century, Sara Pennell explores how the English kitchen became a space of specialised activity, sociability and strife. Drawing upon texts, images, surviving structures and objects, The Birth of the English Kitchen, 1600-1850 opens up the early modern English kitchen as an important historical site in the construction of domestic relations between husband and wife, masters, mistresses and servants and householders and outsiders; and as a crucial resource in contemporary heritage landscapes.>

About the author

Sara Pennell is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Greenwich, UK. She is the co-editor, along with Michelle DiMeo, of Reading and Writing Recipe Books, 1550-1800 (2013).

Product details

• Authors: Sara Pennell, Sara (University of Greenwich Pennell
• Assisted by: Brian Cowan (Editor), Beat Kumin (Editor), Beat Kümin (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2017
• EAN: 9781350056183
• ISBN: 978-1-350-05618-3
• No. of pages: 272
• Series: Cultures of Early Modern Europe; Cultures of Early Modern Europ; Cultures of Early Modern Europe; Cultures of Early Modern Europ
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries