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Laura Shapiro. What She Ate: Six Remarkable Women and the Food That Tells Their Stories
Copyright
Dedication
Epigraph
Introduction
Dorothy Wordsworth (1771–1855)
Rosa Lewis (1867–1952)
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962)
Eva Braun (1912–1945)
Barbara Pym (1913–1980)
Helen Gurley Brown (1922–2012)
Afterword
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
NOTES. Introduction
Dorothy Wordsworth
Rosa Lewis
Eleanor Roosevelt
Eva Braun
Barbara Pym
Helen Gurley Brown
BIBLIOGRAPHY. Libraries and Archives
Other Sources
INDEX
About the Author
OTHER BOOKS BY LAURA SHAPIRO
About the Publisher
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For Jack
How many things by season seasoned are …
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The Grasmere Journal was discreet on many topics, but when she wrote about the wedding, Dorothy tore her heart open. She and William arrived ten days before the ceremony was scheduled to take place. Dorothy took note of the garden, with its asters and sweet peas, and reported, not very convincingly, “I looked at everything with tranquillity & happiness.” The next day she fell sick and remained sick right up until the morning of the wedding when, she wrote, she woke up feeling “fresh & well.” Just before he left for the church, William came upstairs to see her. “I gave him the wedding ring—with how deep a blessing! I took it from my forefinger where I had worn it the whole of the night before—he slipped it again onto my finger and blessed me fervently.” There is some debate about Dorothy’s exact wording here. In her definitive edition of the Grasmere Journal, the Wordsworth scholar Pamela Woof points out that the wedding-ring passage has been heavily inked over, probably by Dorothy. Examined under infrared light the words are fairly legible, and Woof believes that instead of “and blessed me fervently” Dorothy may have written “as I blessed the ring softly.”
Fervently, or perhaps not, then, William went off to the ceremony, while Dorothy stayed behind in her room, fighting off her agitation. “I kept myself as quiet as I could, but when I saw the two men running up the walk, coming to tell us it was over, I could stand it no longer & threw myself on the bed where I lay in stillness, neither hearing or seeing anything.” Mary’s sister, who had been downstairs preparing the wedding breakfast, came up to tell her that the newlyweds were approaching the house, and Dorothy swam back to consciousness. “I moved I knew not how straight forward, faster than my strength could carry me till I met my beloved William & fell upon his bosom.” With the help of one of Mary’s brothers, William got Dorothy back into the house, “& there I stayed to welcome my dear Mary.”
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