DOWSON, Aubrey (ed.).

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The Women's Suffrage Cookery Book. First edition of this cookbook compiled by the Birmingham chapter of the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies (NUWSS). The collection blends domestic instruction with political purpose, and contains a variety of culinary, medicinal, and household recipes contributed by suffragists around the country.The book concludes with the witty entry entitled "Recipe for Cooking and Preserving a Good Suffrage Speaker" by Mrs Bertrand Russell of Bagley Wood which advises, among other instructions to "Butter the speaker,when asking her to come, with a stamped and addressed envelope, post-card, or telegraph form for reply" (p. 73). Dowson was secretary of the Midland Federation of suffragists which was formed in 1909. A variant pictorial front cover was issued with no known priority.

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