Whistler's Mother's Cook Book
Whistler's Mother's Cook Book

Author: Anna Mathilda McNeill Whistler

Publisher: Pomegranate

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 160

ISBN-13: 9780876541081

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American painter James McNeill Whistler probably never expected the portrait of his mother that graces the cover of this book to become a cultural icon. Begun on a whim when another model failed to show up for a session, the painting, familiarly known simply as "Whistler's Mother," has become one of the best known and most beloved in the world and now hangs in the Musee d'Orsay in Paris. Nor, we can be sure, did Anna McNeill Whistler expect that her "cook book" would one day be published and thereby enjoyed by myriad readers beyond her own family. Irreverently referred to by her son as her "Bible," the manuscript book was kept faithfully by Mrs. Whistler of many years and contained recipes for such varied and delectable dishes as bread-and-butter pudding, "oisters," "mackroons," "whigs," quince marmalade, and pickled walnuts. Bequeathed by Whistler's sister-in-law, along with other books and letters from his estate, to the University of Glasgow, the manuscript has been edited for this publication by Margaret MacDonald, research fellow at the Centre for Whistler Studies at the university. MacDonald also provides a fascinating account of the Whistler household in the United States, Russia, and Britain, offering a rare and delightful glimpse into nineteenth-century family life. The recipes are both delicious and easy to prepare; just in reading them, one can sense the flavors and aromas of good home cooking. They are presented both in Mrs. Whistler's words-"To a pint of pulped apples add the juice of a Lemon and a little of the peel shred fine, 5 eggs and a gill of cream . . ."-and in terms more familiar to the modern cook. Where deciphering listed ingredients-such as rose-water, emptins, isinglass, or pearl ash-might otherwise prove perplexing, these terms are fully explained and their modern successors substituted. Among the illustrations in this new edition of Margaret MacDonald's 1979 classic are some of Whistler's most evocative drawings and prints of shopping, cooking, and dining, many in full color, as well as portraits of Whistler and his mother and pages from the original cook book.

The Life of James McNeill Whistler: The Whistler family, the years eighteen thirty-four to eighteen forty-three ; In Russia, the years eighteen forty-three to eighteen forty-nine ; Scholl-days in Pomfret, the years eighteen forty-nine to eighteen fifty-one ; West Point, the years eighteen fifty-one to eighteen fifty-four ; The coast survey, the years eighteen fifty-four to eighteen fifty-five ; Student days in the Latin Quarter, the years eighteen fifty-five to eighteen fifty-nine ; Working days in the Latin Quarter, the years eighteen fifty-five to eighteen fifty-nine ; The beginnings in London, the years eighteen fifty-nine to eighteen sixty-three ; Chelsea days, the years eighteen sixty-three to eighteen sixty-six ; Chelsea days, the years eighteen hundred and sixty-six to eighteen hundred and seventy-two ; Nocturnes, the years eighteen seventy-two to eighteen seventy-four ; Portraits, the years eighteen seventy-two to eighteen seventy-four ; The open door, the year eighteen seventy-four and after ; The Peacock Room, the years eighteen seventy-four to eighteen seventy-seven ; The Grosvenor Gallery, the years eighteen seventy-seven to eighteen seventy-eight ; The White House, the year eighteen seventy-eight ; The trial, the year eighteen seventy-eight ; Bankruptcy, the years eighteen seventy-eight to eighteen seventy-nine ; Venice, the year eighteen seventy-nine to eighteen eighty ; Back in London, the years eighteen eighty to eighteen eighty-one ; The joy of life, the years eighteen eighty-one to eighteen eighty-four
The Life of James McNeill Whistler: The Whistler family, the years eighteen thirty-four to eighteen forty-three ; In Russia, the years eighteen forty-three to eighteen forty-nine ; Scholl-days in Pomfret, the years eighteen forty-nine to eighteen fifty-one ; West Point, the years eighteen fifty-one to eighteen fifty-four ; The coast survey, the years eighteen fifty-four to eighteen fifty-five ; Student days in the Latin Quarter, the years eighteen fifty-five to eighteen fifty-nine ; Working days in the Latin Quarter, the years eighteen fifty-five to eighteen fifty-nine ; The beginnings in London, the years eighteen fifty-nine to eighteen sixty-three ; Chelsea days, the years eighteen sixty-three to eighteen sixty-six ; Chelsea days, the years eighteen hundred and sixty-six to eighteen hundred and seventy-two ; Nocturnes, the years eighteen seventy-two to eighteen seventy-four ; Portraits, the years eighteen seventy-two to eighteen seventy-four ; The open door, the year eighteen seventy-four and after ; The Peacock Room, the years eighteen seventy-four to eighteen seventy-seven ; The Grosvenor Gallery, the years eighteen seventy-seven to eighteen seventy-eight ; The White House, the year eighteen seventy-eight ; The trial, the year eighteen seventy-eight ; Bankruptcy, the years eighteen seventy-eight to eighteen seventy-nine ; Venice, the year eighteen seventy-nine to eighteen eighty ; Back in London, the years eighteen eighty to eighteen eighty-one ; The joy of life, the years eighteen eighty-one to eighteen eighty-four

Author: Elizabeth Robins Pennell

Publisher:

Published: 1908

Total Pages: 532

ISBN-13:

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The Family Nobody Wanted
The Family Nobody Wanted

Author: Helen Doss

Publisher: Northeastern University Press

Published: 2014-12-01

Total Pages: 275

ISBN-13: 1555538495

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Doss's charming, touching, and at times hilarious chronicle tells how each of the children, representing white, Chinese, Japanese, Filipino, Korean, Mexican, and Native American backgrounds, came to her and husband Carl, a Methodist minister. She writes of the way the "unwanted" feeling was erased with devoted love and understanding and how the children united into one happy family. Her account reads like a novel, with scenes of hard times and triumphs described in vivid prose. The Family Nobody Wanted, which inspired two films, opened doors for other adoptive families and was a popular favorite among parents, young adults, and children for more than thirty years. Now this edition will introduce the classic to a new generation of readers. An epilogue by Helen Doss that updates the family's progress since 1954 will delight the book's loyal legion of fans around the world.

The Four Deaths of Acorn Whistler
The Four Deaths of Acorn Whistler

Author: Joshua Piker

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2013-06-10

Total Pages: 381

ISBN-13: 0674075625

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Who was Acorn Whistler, and why did he have to die? A deeply researched analysis of a bloody eighteenth-century conflict and its tangled aftermath, The Four Deaths of Acorn Whistler unearths competing accounts of the events surrounding the death of this Creek Indian. Told from the perspectives of a colonial governor, a Creek Nation military leader, local Native Americans, and British colonists, each story speaks to issues that transcend the condemned man’s fate: the collision of European and Native American cultures, the struggle of Indians to preserve traditional ways of life, and tensions within the British Empire as the American Revolution approached. At the hand of his own nephew, Acorn Whistler was executed in the summer of 1752 for the crime of murdering five Cherokee men. War had just broken out between the Creeks and the Cherokees to the north. To the east, colonists in South Carolina and Georgia watched the growing conflict with alarm, while British imperial officials kept an eye on both the Indians’ war and the volatile politics of the colonists themselves. They all interpreted the single calamitous event of Acorn Whistler’s death through their own uncertainty about the future. Joshua Piker uses their diverging accounts to uncover the larger truth of an early America rife with violence and insecurity but also transformative possibility.

Muddy Ground
Muddy Ground

Author: John William Nelson

Publisher: UNC Press Books

Published: 2023-09-12

Total Pages: 289

ISBN-13: 1469675218

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In early North America, carrying watercraft—usually canoes—and supplies across paths connecting one body of water to another was essential in the establishment of both Indigenous and European mobility in the continent's interior. The Chicago portage, a network of overland canoe routes that connected the Great Lakes and Mississippi watersheds, grew into a crossroads of interaction as Indigenous and European people vied for its control during early contact and colonization. John William Nelson charts the many peoples that traversed and sought power along Chicago's portage paths from the seventeenth to the mid-nineteenth centuries, including Indigenous Illinois traders, French explorers, Jesuit missionaries, Meskwaki warriors, British officers, Anishinaabe headmen, and American settlers. Nelson compellingly demonstrates that even deep within the interior, power relations fluctuated based on the control of waterways and local environmental knowledge. Pushing beyond political and cultural explanations for Indigenous-European relations in the borderlands of North America, Nelson places environmental and geographic realities at the center of the history of Indigenous Chicago, offering a new explanation for how the United States gained control of the North American interior through a two-pronged subjugation of both the landscapes and peoples of the continent.