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Put your whisk and rolling pin to one side, pick up your pens and pencils, and release your creativity! Here are beautiful illustrations of your favourite cakes that are just waiting to be brought to life. Sprinkle colour onto gingerbread houses, finesse macaron towers and embellish the decorations however you wish. Whether you choose to traditionally ice your Swedish Princess Cake, trial rainbow piping on your layer cake, or marble your many sponges, savour each bake and let your imagination fly.
Josephine Pinckney (1895--1957) was an award-winning, best-selling author whose work critics frequently compared to that of Jane Austen, Edith Wharton, and Isak Dinesen. Her flair for storytelling and trenchant social commentary found expression in poetry, five novels -- Three O'Clock Dinner was the most successful -- stories, essays, and reviews. Pinckney belonged to a distinguished South Carolina family and often used Charleston as her setting, writing in the tradition of Ellen Glasgow by blending social realism with irony, tragedy, and humor in chronicling the foibles of the South's declining upper class. Barbara L. Bellows has produced the first biography of this very private woman and e...
Recounts the story of Fanny Kemble and her two daughters, one of whom lived with her mother in the North, while the other remained with their father in the South.