Henrietta Marshall Latham Dwight (born Henrietta Marshall; other married name Henrietta Latham; October 21, 1840 – February 8, 1909) was an American watercolor artist and cookbook writer. She was known for her landscapes and authored the vegetarian cookbook ''The Golden Age Cook-Book'', in 1898.

Biography

Early and personal life

Dwight was born in

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as Henrietta Marshall. Her parents were Charles Manchester Marshall of England and Henrietta Cole of Kentucky. In 1860 she married James Hoge Latham, they had three children. In 1876, her husband died and she married Colonel James F. Dwight in 1880. She moved into a fifty-room mansion, Thrulow Lodge, in Menlo Park.

Art

Dwight was known for her watercolor landscapes. She studied with Christian Jorgensen and her artwork focused on Californian coastal life.

''The Golden Age Cook-Book''

Dwight authored an early

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cookbook, ''The Golden Age Cook-Book'', in 1898. The cookbook was

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and utilized " mock meat" recipes, such as mock chicken croquettes and mock fish soup. Her mock chicken recipe was made from breadcrumbs, eggs, lemon juice and walnuts. Dwight stated that meat eating was "not necessary to the perfect health of man".

Death

Dwight died during the

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epidemic in Paris in 1909. She was buried in Mountain View Cemetery, California. In 1918, in memory of Dwight and her first husband, their children Edith and Milton Latham formed the Latham Foundation with the aim of promoting humane education and respect for all living creatures.

Selected publications

* '' The Golden Age Cook-Book'' (1898)

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Dwight, Henrietta Latham 1840 births 1909 deaths 19th-century American women artists American animal welfare workers American cookbook writers American landscape painters American women food writers American women watercolorists American vegetarianism activists Burials at Mountain View Cemetery (Oakland, California) Deaths from diphtheria Infectious disease deaths in France Vegetarian cookbook writers Writers from Philadelphia American food writers