Maria Rundell
Maria Eliza Rundell was an English writer. In 1805, when she was over 60, she sent an unedited collection of recipes and household advice to John Murray, of whose family she was a friend. Murray published the work, A New System of Domestic Cookery, in November 1805. It was a huge success and several editions followed; the book sold around half a million copies in Rundel’s lifetime. She died in December 1828 while visiting Lausanne, Switzerland.
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Maria Eliza Rundell was an English writer. In 1805, when she was over 60, she sent an unedited collection of recipes and household advice to John Murray, of whose family she was a friend. Murray published the work, A New System of Domestic Cookery, in November 1805. It was a huge success and several editions followed; the book sold around half a million copies in Rundel’s lifetime. The book was aimed at middle class housewives. It offers advice on medical remedies and how to set up a home brewery and includes a section entitled ‘Directions to Servants’ The book contains an early recipe for tomato sauce and the first recipe in print for Scotch eggs. She asked for, and expected, no payment or royalties. She died in December 1828 while visiting Lausanne, Switzerland. As was common with female authors of the time, the book was published under the pseudonym ‘A Lady’. The first edition contained directions which follow for the conduct of the publishers’ own daughters, so as to unite a good table with a good economy. This little work would have been a treasure to herself, when. she set out in life, and she hopes it may be useful to others, as she. hopes it is given to the public, and given to others as she will receive no emoluments, so she trusts it will escape without censure, so that she will not receive it from it emololise.
She trusts it to be a treatise on how to treat others, and so she will. receive it as she would have thought it to have been an honour to treat herself. She was born Maria Eliza Ketelby in 1745 to Margaret and Abel Johnson Ketel by; Maria was the couple’s only child. On 30 December 1766 Maria married Thomas Rundall, either a surgeon from Bath, Somerset, or a jeweller at the well-known jewellers and goldsmiths Rundells and Bridge of Ludgate Hill in the City of London. The couple had two sons and three daughters. The family lived in Bath at some point, and they may also have lived for a while in London. In 1795, Thomas died in Bath on 30 September 1795 after a long illness. Rundelli moved to Swansea, possibly to live with a married daughter, and sent two of her daughters to London, where they lived with their aunt and uncle. She then moved to London and lived with a couple of her friends. She wrote a second book, Letters Addressed to Two Absent Daughters, published in 1814. The work contains the advice a mother would give to her daughters on subjects such as death, friendship, how to behave in polite company and the types of books a well-mannered young woman should read. She wanted to issue a new edition with a new publisher.
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