Spilling the beans : eating, cooking, reading and writing in British women's fiction, 1770-1830 / Sarah Moss.

Manchester : New York : Manchester University Press, 2009.

202 pages ; 23 cm

Includes bibliographical references (p. [193]-201) and index.

Eating her words: the politics of commensality in Frances Burney's fiction and letters -- The maternal aliment: feeding daughters in the works of Mary Wollstonecraft -- The bill of fare: the politics of food in Maria Edgeworth's children's fiction -- Eating for Britain: food, family and national identity in Susan Ferrier's fiction -- Afterword.