Eliza Leslie
Eliza Leslie was an American writer of popular cookbooks during the nineteenth century, a body of work that placed her among the recognizable names in domestic literature of her era.
She was born in Philadelphia in 1787 and was a United States citizen throughout her life. The available facts don't detail her early education or the precise path that led her to writing, but she built a career producing cookbooks that found readers across nineteenth-century America. Her output as a writer was substantial enough that the Library of Congress Name Authority File records her as "Leslie, Eliza, 1787-1858," anchoring her identity in American bibliographic history.
Leslie died in Gloucester City in 1858, having spent her working life contributing to American popular publishing as a writer of cookbooks.
Quotes by Eliza Leslie
Ignorant people always suppose that popular writers are wonderfully well-paid – and must be making rapid fortunes – because they neither starve in garrets, nor wear rags – at least in America.
Gratitude is a very pleasant sensation, both for those who feel and to those who excite it. No one who confers a favor can say with truth that they ‘want no thanks.’ They always do.
Many persons erroneously suppose that an author has always on hand an unlimited number of her own books; or that the publisher will kindly give her as many as she can want for herself and friends. This is by no means the case.
If a person begins by telling you, ‘Do not be offended at what I am going to say,’ prepare yourself for something that she knows will certainly offend you.
On this earth there are many roads to heaven; and each traveller supposes his own to be the best. But they must all unite in one road at the last. It is only Omniscience that can decide. And it will then be found that no sect is excluded because of its faith...
