Lettice Bryan

• Comment: My guidelines for author vs. book for an author of a single book:
  1.The only reason for two articles is if the author is well-known for other than the book, and the book is also quite important and might well be known independently. (This is most likely to be the case for people writing on current affairs; it will not be the case when the book isa memoir or autobiography))
  2.For an author who has published a single significant book and is unlikely to publish more (usually but not always because of no longer being alive) , I think the article should be on the book. More people are likely to be aware of it. A(a cookbookl like this is a good example--the primary interest is because people are innerested in cookbooks)
  3.For a living author who will probably publish more if the book is a success (and if it isn't there probably shouldn't be a WP article)
  4.The reasons for not having 2 articles is that the contents would mainly duplicate, and whichever the reader is interested in, they will be best served by having the information together. DGG ( talk ) 05:51, 3 August 2019 (UTC)

• Comment: @DGG and Jimfbleak: I've cleared what looks like the remaining copyright violations. This is probably ready to go back into mainspace, but see also my comments at Draft:The Kentucky Housewife regarding whether we need one or two articles. Would appreciate your opinions on that. -- RoySmith (talk) 14:40, 2 August 2019 (UTC)

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The Kentucky Housewife title page

Lettice Pierce Bryan (1805-1877) was a US author, who wrote The Kentucky Housewife, a cookbook originally published in 1839.

Prior to 1796 publication of Amelia Simmons’ American Cookery, cookbooks in the United States were either imported England or reprinted locally. American cookbooks featuring regional foods, such as The Virginia House-Wife (Mary Randolph, 1824) and The Kentucky Housewife (Bryan, 1839) were also popular and were reprinted numerous times over the decades following their original publication.  

Life

Bryan was born in central Kentucky, probably near Danville, to James A. Pierce and Elizabeth Crow Pierce, one of three children. In 1823, she married Virginia-born Edmond Bryan (1786-1863).

When Bryan was writing her cookbook, she lived in Monticello, Kentucky where she ran a household with nine young children. At this time, her husband, Edmund, was studying at Medical College of Ohio.

After The Kentucky Housewife was published, her family lived in Washington County and later, Grayson County, Kentucky. By the 1850 Census, the family had moved the Washington County, Kentucky. By 1860, they were living in Grayson County, Kentucky where she received a land grant for 299 acres. Dr. Bryan died in 1863.

Bryan was said to be “a woman of an unusually fine presence, and well educated” for the time. She wrote two works on religious subjects as well as The Kentucky Housewife. She had 14 children. She died at age 72, in 1877, in Macoupin County, Illinois, at the home of her son-in-law Dr. C. F. Burnett. She is buried at Cave Hill Cemetery in Louisville, Kentucky.

External links

Full text of The Kentucky Housewife at Library of Congress, 1841 edition

Full text of The Kentucky Housewife at Hathi Trust Digital Library, 1839 edition

Category:19th-century American women writers Category:1805 births Category:1877 deaths