Florence Caddy (1837 – 9 July 1923) was an English non-fiction writer from

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. She wrote the first book on household management to become well known.

Family

She was born in Middlesex (now part of London) in 1837, as Florence Tompson. She married John Turner Caddy in 1857 at

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and had five children: John Francis in 1857, Florence in 1863, Arnold in 1866, Hermione Helena in 1869 and Adrian in 1879. Her husband died in 1902 and she died in 1923 in

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Works

Caddy's 1877 ''Household Organization'' covers most aspects of housekeeping in its 84 pages. Her 1886 book on

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was described in a review in ''

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'' as "eminently readable". However, the reviewer notes that she "does not belong to the sceptical school of historians. Believing Jeanne to have been a divinely inspired heroine, she casts no doubt on the reality of her voices and visions."16 January 1886, p. 21.

References

Bibliography

*1877 ''Household Organisation'', Chapman & Hall, London. *1878 ''Artist and Amateur; or, The Surface of Life'', 3 vols., Chapman & Hall, London. *1881 ''Lares and Penates; or, The Background of Life'', Chatto & Windus, London. *1883 ''Adrian Bright'', 3 vols., Hurst & Blackett, London. *1886 ''Footsteps of Jeanne d'Arc'', Hurst & Blackett, London. *1887 ''Through the Fields with Linnaeus: a Chapter in Swedish History'', 2 vols., Longmans, London. *1889 ''To Siam and Malaya in the Duke of Sutherland's Yacht "Sans Peur"'', Hurst & Blackett, London. Republished by OUP in 1992

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