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Hannah Woolley, sometimes spelled Wolley (c.1622 – in or after 1675), [1] was an English writer who published early books on household management; she was probably the first person to earn a living doing this.
Title page of The Queen-Like Closet Or Rich Cabinet by Hannah Woolley, 1670. The Queen-like Closet, Or, Rich Cabinet was a cookery book published in 1670 by the English writer on household management, Hannah Woolley [a] (1622 – c.1675). [1] It ran through five English editions by 1684. At least two German editions were also printed.
The Art of Cookery Made Plain and Easy, by Hannah Glasse. The Cookery Collection holds several different editions of The Art of Cookery Made Plain and Easy by Hannah Glasse, first published in 1747. [25] [6] This book was a best seller for more than one hundred years and was written to help instruct servants in the preparing of meals. [26]
Emmeline M. D. Woolley (1843–1908), English-born Australian musician; Frank Woolley (1887–1978), English cricketer; Geoffrey Harold Woolley, British Victoria Cross recipient; George Cathcart Woolley, British colonial administrator and ethnographer; Hannah Woolley, early English writer of household management books
She is the first woman known to have written almanacs and she and Hannah Woolley are considered the first women professional writers. Their writings show the freedoms that were available during the Commonwealth and the Restoration of the monarchy. [ 2 ]
French influence is evident in Hannah Woolley's The Cooks Guide, 1664. Her recipes are designed to enable her non-aristocratic readers to imitate the fashionable French style of cooking with elaborate sauces. She combined the use of "Claret wine" [16] and anchovies with more traditional cooking ingredients such as sugar, dried fruit, and vinegar.
Unlike earlier cookbook authors, such as Hannah Glasse, the book offered an "emphasis on thrift and economy". [1] It also discarded the style of previous writers who employed "daunting paragraph[s] of text with ingredients and method jumbled up together" for what is a recognisably modern "user-friendly formula listing ingredients, method ...
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