Georgiana Hill (cookery book writer)

This article is about the cookery book writer; not to be confused with Georgiana Hill, the social historian.

Georgina Hill (14 July 1825 – 22 July 1903) was an English cookery book writer who wrote at least twenty-three works. She was born in Kingsdown, Bristol before moving to Tadley, Hampshire in the 1850s. She wrote her first cookery book, The Gourmet's Guide to Rabbit Cooking, there in 1859. Within a year she was writing for the Routledge Household Manuals series of books; her final work was published in 1870. She produced several books that specialised in an ingredient, type of food, method of cooking or meal. Her books appear to have sold well, and were advertised in the UK, India and the US. The recipes assume a prior knowledge of cookery. Her complete canon of publications has been favourably compared with the compendium-style cookery books that were produced in Victorian England, particularly Isabella Beeton's 1861 work A Book of Household Management.

Hill's 1862 work Everybody's Pudding Book was republished as A Year of Victorian Puddings in 2012. For much of the twentieth century Hill's identity and work were mistakenly conflated with those of her namesake, Georgiana Hill, the social historian, journalist and women's rights activist.

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