Mary Stuart Smith First Edition 1874 Heirs of the Kingdom VA First Family HC

Description: Hardcover. 12mo. Publishing House of the M. E Church, South, Barnes & Smith, Agents, Nashville, Tn. 1874. 178 pgs. Frontispiece. First Edition/First Printing. Bound in blindstamped decorated cloth with gilt decoration present to the spine. Boards have wear present to the extremities of the boards (boards lightly rubbed and worn). No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Mary Stuart Harrison Smith (1834–1917) was an American author, translator, and women's advocate. Her Virginia Cookery Book (1885) is one of the country's early modern cookbooks. In addition to other original works, she published over fifty translated compositions, primarily from the German to English. In 1893 Smith, a descendant of the Harrison family of Virginia, attended and spoke on behalf of Virginia women at the Chicago World's Congress, which was designed to highlight women's rights. In 1895 she was among other women invited by the Virginia governor to represent the Commonwealth's female workers at the Board of Women's convention at the International Exposition in Atlanta. Mary Stuart Smith First Edition 1874 Heirs of the Kingdom VA First Family HC Description Up For Sale Today is Heirs of the Kingdom by Mary Stuart Smith Hardcover. 12mo. Publishing House of the M. E Church, South, Barnes & Smith, Agents, Nashville, Tn. 1874. 178 pgs. Frontispiece. First Edition/First Printing. Bound in blindstamped decorated cloth with gilt decoration present to the spine. Boards have wear present to the extremities of the boards (boards lightly rubbed and worn). No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid FROM WIKIPEDIA: Mary Stuart Harrison Smith (1834–1917) was an American author, translator, and women's advocate. Her Virginia Cookery Book (1885) is one of the country's early modern cookbooks. In addition to other original works, she published over fifty translated compositions, primarily from the German to English. In 1893 Smith, a descendant of the Harrison family of Virginia, attended and spoke on behalf of Virginia women at the Chicago World's Congress, which was designed to highlight women's rights. In 1895 she was among other women invited by the Virginia governor to represent the Commonwealth's female workers at the Board of Women's convention at the International Exposition in Atlanta. After the American Civil War, Smith's nascent interest in writing began to flourish. A notable beginning was made with her Art of Housekeeping in 1878, which first appeared as a series of papers written for the New York Fashion Bazar. Of her original books, Heirs of the Kingdom was published in Nashville in 1880, for which a prize of $300 was awarded by a select committee. Smith's Virginia Cookery Book was one of the early modern efforts made of that genre in America, in 1885. In her preface, Smith provides her principal motivation for the book, as one of “expediency”, in light of “old domestic institutions being done away with” and “the danger that the composition of many an excellent dish may become forgotten lore.” She then gives reverence to her forebears in cookery, saying “Enough it will be for the Virginia Cookery Book to take its place on the housekeeper’s pantry-shelf alongside the similar works of Miss Leslie, Marian Harland, Mrs. Henderson, and Mrs. Hale…” Smith further emphasized the role of her book as “a memento of the past, as well as a help in the present, extolling Mary Randolph‘s Virginia Housewife (1824), of which there was then no authorized edition extant. Smith then reproduces the introduction to Randolph’s book, which was written for that lady by Smith's grandfather, Professor George Tucker. Smith's Lang Syne, or the Wards of Mt. Vernon was published on the occasion of the Washington Centennial, held in New York in April, 1887. 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Price: 200 USD

Location: Charlottesville, Virginia

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