MACLURCAN, Hannah [née Phillips, Wigham, later Lee (1860 - 1936)] 
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Mrs Maclurcan's Cookery Book: a collection of recipes specially suitable for Australia. Townsville : T M Willett & Sons, October 1898. Second Edition, revised and enlarged. First published April 1898. Octavo (165x110mm) deluxe full black morocco boards, gilt titles & dentelles, all edges gilt, [384]pp : [a]8, A - W8. Twenty leaves of engraved illustrated local advertisements. Author inscribed presentation copy "With the Authoress' Compliments" in ink to the front free endpaper. Edges lightly worn; spine head and tail small loss; signatures Q and R slightly shaken; else crisp and clean.
¶ Born to English/Scottish Jewish hotelier parents in Brisbane in 1860, Hannah Maclurcan was a significant Australian hotelier, publican, and cookery book writer. She grew up in hotels, working every section starting in the kitchens. By 1875 (aged 15) she was managing one of the family's hotels. Married and then widowed at an early age, in 1887 she married Donald Maclurcan, a hotelier. Together they ran significant hotels in Townsville. In 1898 she self-published her Cookery Book in Townsville, purchasing the type for the printers to allow it to be printed. The first edition of 800 copies sold out within weeks of publication. The second edition, of which this is a rare deluxe binding, was printed within six months of the first. It subsequently ran to 20 editions by 1930 in various formats. In 1901 she and her husband took on the lease of the Wentworth Hotel Sydney, and after she was widowed again in 1903, she managed the hotel herself, buying the freehold in 1912 and turning the Wentworth into a grand hotel renowned for its fine cuisine and cold buffets before listing it on the stock exchange as a public company. Both Hannah and the Wentworth were the centre of Sydney society during the first three decades of the twentieth century and the favourite of celebrity guests (including The Prince of Wales in 1920). Hannah Maclurcan continued as Managing Director until 1932. One of Australia's earliest 'local' cookery books, 'Mrs Maclurcan's Cookery Book' is notable for including recipes using indigenous, local and tropical ingredients (e.g. pineapple, grandilla, paw-paw (both sweet and savoury recipes), plaintains, brinjaw (eggplant) ,prickly pear, guava, rosellas, kangaroo, wallaby, pigmy goose, barramundi) and arguably shows the influence of Chinese immigration and labour in Far North Queensland at the time (e.g. Beche-de-Mer Soup, Devilled Whitebait, Stewed Chicken with Rice, Fried Rice with chili, and the use of fresh (not powdered) ginger in Kangaroo tail soup & other dishes). A number of Jewish recipes are also included and separately identified. A rare deluxe author inscribed presentation copy. § Unrecorded in this binding. Of the first edition, OCLC records one holding, Qatar; Trove records five holdings in Australia; no holdings recorded in the UK or the USA. Of the second edition, OCLC records seven holdings, six in Australia and Kansas State. § Hoyle 785; Austin p.78 ; Ferguson 12090 ; Not in Cagle, nor Bitting. cf Driver 657 et al for later editions. Item #11720
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