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The Cook’s Temptation by Joyce Wayne
It’s 1881. What happens when Cordelia, a Jewish woman, marries the wealthiest man in the West Country of England? At the same time, typhoid is raging throughout Devon and the epidemic appears to be...
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Depression-Era Meals: Sinclair Ross’ “The Painted Door”
“The Painted Door” by Sinclair Ross is a short story that focuses on the stressful lives of farmers during the 1930s when the Great Depression was at its peak. Living in isolation, John and his wife...
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Life is About Losing Everything by Lynn Crosbie
“Every book is about cancer or dieting,” the narrator of Life is About Losing Everything observes while perusing a bookshop (180). Crosbie’s text fits into the latter camp, featuring a protagonist...
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It’s Not Me, It’s the Food: The Edible Woman by Margaret Atwood
Marian MacAlpin is a normal 26-year-old working woman who, for reasons she doesn’t quite understand, begins to lose her appetite. Initially Marian believes that her distaste for food only encompasses...
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Susan Swan’s 1983 novel The Biggest Modern Woman of the World
Susan Swan’s 1983 novel The Biggest Modern Woman of the World is a fictional autobiography of nineteenth century Maritime giantess, Anna Swan. The novel is divided into four chronological sections,...
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Sexual Politics at the Dinner Table: An Aberrant Menu for Jordan Tannahill’s...
The nuclear family is heterosexist ideology’s raison d’être and its highest achievement, and the family dinner its most entrenched and sacred ritual. In Jordan Tannahill’s play Late Company, two...
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