Catherine Ives was the pen name of British writer Doris Ives Smith (1888–1951). In addition to many magazine articles, especially in ''Britannia and Eve'', Ives wrote two well-known

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Selected works

*''When The Cook Is Away'',Ives, Catherine. 1928. When the Cook is Away. Duckworth, London published in 1928, was "...intended to come to the rescue of people whose kitchens have been deprived of their cooks, and who know nothing about cooking themselves." The book has a famous cover, designed by a young

Cecil Beaton Sir Cecil Walter Hardy Beaton, (14 January 1904 – 18 January 1980) was a British fashion, portrait and war photographer, diarist, painter, and interior designer, as well as an Academy Awards, Oscar–winning stage design, stage and costume de ...

. The book addresses some of the dramatic post WW1 social changesColquhoun, K. 2012. Taste: The Story of Britain through Its Cooking. A&C Black and associated changes in cookeryBoxer, A. 2012. Arabella Boxer's Book of English Food: A Rediscovery of British Food From Before the War. Penguin UK A 1934 enlarged edition is renamed, ''Catherine Ives' Cookery Book: A Much Enlarged and Thoroughly Revised Edition of "When the Cook is Away" with New Chapters on Cakes, Savouries, and Left-overs''. *''Good Meals For Hard Times'', published in 1940,Ives, Catherine. 1940. Good Meals for Hard Times. Burleigh, Bristol had an emphasis on economy and cheerfulness. She wrote, "Some of the dishes which are still favourites in my own household made their first appearance there during the last war."

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had just begun, and she wrote "no one knows yet how many

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s may have to be

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, or what the amount of those rations may be."

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Art featuring Catherine Ives
1888 births 1951 deaths British cookbook writers Women cookbook writers 20th-century British non-fiction writers Pseudonymous women writers 20th-century pseudonymous writers {{UK-nonfiction-writer-stub