Background
Hannah Glasse was born on the 28th of March 1708 in London, United Kingdom; the daughter of Isaac Allgood and Hannah Clark.
Hannah Glasse was born on the 28th of March 1708 in London, United Kingdom; the daughter of Isaac Allgood and Hannah Clark.
As she was born in a very poor family, she never went to school or college in her childhood and she always spent her adulthood with her father’s younger sister Margaret Widdrington.
Glasse's first book, published in 1742 in Dublin, was the "Compleat Confectioner", which appeared in at least seven editions in Dublin and London prior to 1800. Her most famous work, "The Art of Cookery Made Plain and Easy, Which far exceeds any Thing of the Kind ever yet Printed", was published in 1747 in London, and went through ten editions before Glasse's death in 1770.
In 1754 H. Glasse got to be bankrupt. Her stock was not sold after the liquidation, as it was all held in Margaret's name. However, on 29 October 1754, Glasse was compelled to sell her most prized resource, the copyright for The Art of Cookery. On 17 December 1754, the London Gazette expressed that Glasse would be released from chapter 11 on 11 January 1755. Around the same time, she and her sibling Lancelot reimbursed the entirety of £500 they had mutually obtained of Sir Henry Bedingfeld two years prior.
Glasse by and by fell into critical money related troubles and was dispatched on the 22 June 1757 to the Marshalsea indebted individuals' jail. In July 1757, she was exchanged to Fleet Prison. No record has been found of her discharge date, however she was a liberated individual by 2 December 1757, as on this day she enlisted three shares in The Servants Directory, another book she had composed on the overseeing of a family unit. It was not a financially effective endeavor, despite the fact that its copied versions were mainstream in North America. Her girl kept on paying the rates on the Tavistock Street premises until 1758, when it was recorded as unfilled.
Although not nearly as popular as her cookbook, Glasse's 1760 publication The Servant's Directory, or House-keeper's Companion went through four editions by 1762. Also often attributed to Glasse are four children's books, all published posthumously: Cato, or Interesting Adventures of a Dog of Sentiment (1816), Easy Rhymes for Children from Five to Ten Years of Age (1825), The Infant's Friend, and Little Rhymes for Little Folks.
She is best known for her cookbook, modestly entitled, "The specialty of cookery, made plain and simple: which far surpasses anything of the kind yet distributed… ", initially distributed in 1747. The book was republished inside its first year of production, showed up in 20 versions in the eighteenth century.
In 1994, Prospect Books distributed a copy of the 1747 release of Art of Cookery under the title First Catch Your Hare, with early on expositions by Jennifer Stead and Priscilla Bain, and a glossary by Alan Davidson; it was reissued in soft cover in 2004. In 1998, Applewood Books distributed a copy release of the 1805 version, commented on by culinary history specialist Karen Hess.
Walter Staib serves Glasse's formulas in the City Tavern, Philadelphia, and applauds her in his frontier cookbooks and his TV program, A Taste of History.
In 2006, Glasse was the subject of a BBC dramatization narrative that called her the "mother of the present day supper party", and "the primary residential goddess".
(Writing for domestic servants in a conversational, access...)
1747(It is important in all sorts of ways: it was written by a...)
1747(The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration a...)
1760("A very interesting glimpse at everyday cooking in the da...)
1805She was born as an English woman and she followed Christianity. She has not involved herself in any religious movements or spreading it to others in any means.
She was a tough person who had faced a lot of difficulties in life.
Physical Characteristics: Hannah Glasse, a fair English lady, she was short and neither fat nor very thin. She looked very old with wrinkles in face and white short hair. She always wore a gown and an apron comfortable for her kitchen works.
She was married John Glasse on 5 August 1724 at Leyton.
He was the son of Rev. Major Allgood, who held the position of rector of Simonsburn.
She was the daughter of Isaac Clark, a vintner who maintained his business in London
He is the son of a Scotswoman and Irishman, employed as a junior officer in the British army serving on half-pay.
