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Antonia Isola (born May 16, 1876) is the pseudonym of Mabel Earl McGinnis, author of Simple Italian Cookery, [1] the first Italian cookbook published in the U.S.[ citation needed ]
McGinnis was born May 16, 1876, in New York to John McGinnis and Lydia Olivia Matteson. She married Norvell Richardson.
She had lived in Rome for some years and was well-versed in Italian food, but publishers Harper & Brothers chose the pseudonym to impart the air of "authenticity" to the work. Simple Italian Cookery was published February 1912.
Lady Antonia Margaret Caroline Fraser, is a British author of history, novels, biographies and detective fiction. She is the widow of the 2005 Nobel Laureate in Literature, Harold Pinter (1930–2008), and prior to his death was also known as Lady Antonia Pinter.
William Dean Howells was an American realist novelist, literary critic, and playwright, nicknamed "The Dean of American Letters". He was particularly known for his tenure as editor of The Atlantic Monthly, as well as for the novels The Rise of Silas Lapham and A Traveler from Altruria, and the Christmas story "Christmas Every Day," which was adapted into a 1996 film of the same name.
Jane Francesca Agnes, Lady Wilde was an Irish poet under the pen name Speranza and supporter of the nationalist movement. Lady Wilde had a special interest in Irish folktales, which she helped to gather and was the mother of Oscar Wilde and Willie Wilde.
John William Draper was an English-born American scientist, philosopher, physician, chemist, historian and photographer. He is credited with pioneering portrait photography (1839–40) and producing the first detailed photograph of the moon in 1840. He was also the first president of the American Chemical Society (1876–77) and a founder of the New York University School of Medicine.
Jane Grigson was an English cookery writer. In the latter part of the 20th century she was the author of the food column for The Observer and wrote numerous books about European cuisines and traditional British dishes. Her work proved influential in promoting British food.
Fannie Merritt Farmer was an American culinary expert whose Boston Cooking-School Cook Book became a widely used culinary text.
Mabel Evans Dodge Sterne Luhan was an American patron of the arts, who was particularly associated with the Taos art colony.
Constance Fenimore Woolson was an American novelist, poet, and short story writer. She was a grandniece of James Fenimore Cooper, and is best known for fictions about the Great Lakes region, the American South, and American expatriates in Europe.
Margaret Frances Culkin Banning was a best-selling American writer of thirty-six novels and an early advocate of women's rights.
Esther McCoy was an American author and architectural historian who was instrumental in bringing the modern architecture of California to the attention of the world.
Mabel Osgood Wright was an American writer and conservationist. She was an early leader in the Audubon movement who wrote extensively about nature and birds.
Mary Virginia Terhune, also known by her penname Marion Harland, was an American author who was prolific and bestselling in both fiction and non-fiction genres. Born in Amelia County, Virginia, she began her career writing articles at the age of 14, using various pennames until 1853, when she settled on Marion Harland. Her first novel Alone was published in 1854 and became an "emphatic success" following its second printing the next year. For fifteen years she was a prolific writer of best-selling women's novels, classified then as "plantation fiction", as well as writing numerous serial works, short stories, and essays for magazines.
Netta Syrett was an English writer of the late Victorian period whose novels featured New Woman protagonists. Her novel Portrait of a Rebel was adapted into the 1936 film A Woman Rebels.
Sarah Barnwell Elliott was an American novelist, short story writer, and an advocate of women's rights.
Ruth Cranston was an American author and lecturer on religion and other subjects.
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Mrs. Bartle Teeling was a British writer. She published dozens of articles and biographical sketches, as well as several books, a play, and some music. Teeling died in 1906.
Philippa Stewart, Countess of Galloway, was an American heiress who married into the Scottish aristocracy.
Olive Harper, the alias of Ellen Burrell D'Apery, was an American journalist, writer, and poet. Her novels comprise mystery, detective, and science fiction stories, including AFair Californian (1889), The Show Girl: Or, the Cap of Fortune (1902), and TheSociable Ghost (1903). She also wrote novelizations of various plays, primarily written by Owen Davis, including The Gambler of the West (1906) and King of the Bigamists (1909).
Marian Andrews was a biographer and novelist who published under the pseudonym Christopher Hare. She wrote stories set in rural Wiltshire, followed by historical fiction and biographies of fifteenth- and sixteenth-century figures, especially women, complaining that "all serious consideration was reserved for the men of the period" among other historians.
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