Household/Food Studies

Published Books (Monograph)

Humanism, Capitalism and Rhetoric in Early Modern England: The Separation of the Citizen from the Self (ARC Medieval Press, 2022).

Co-authored Books

The Bibliography of Nineteenth Century British Cookery Books and Related Domestic Manuals Published in Britain, 1800-1914,Vol. I (London: Prospect Books, 1987), pp. 438. With Dena Attar.

The Bibliography of Nineteenth Century Cookery Books and Related Domestic Manuals Published in Britain,1800-1914, Vol. II (London: Prospect Books, 1989), pp. 738. With Elizabeth Driver.

Edited Books

Food and Community: Moving Wor(l)ds, ed. L. Hunter (Leeds: University of Leeds, 2006), pp. 204.

Women, Science and Medicine, 1500-1700, eds. L. Hunter and S. Hutton (Stroud: Sutton Publishing, 1997), pp. 241.

Performances

‘Can a Man be a Woman? Robert Kroetsch’s The Puppeteer’
1994: Universite de Strasbourg (France), Conference in Honour of Robert Kroetsch.
1995: University of Calgary (Canada), Calgary University Art Gallery; University of Western Ontario, London (Canada), Graduate Studies; University of Leeds (UK), Faculty Research.
1996:University of Toronto (Canada), Faculty Research; University of Huddersfield (UK), Graduate Studies.
1997: University of Leeds (UK), Theatre Workshop Graduate Studies.
2001: Warsaw University (Poland).

‘Trying not to be a Tragic Subject: Work by First Nations Writer Lee Maracle’
1995: Universite de Rennes II (France), Conference Autobiographie/Autobiography
1996: University of Nottingham (UK), Conference of the British Association for Canadian Studies (Literature).

‘Cooking the Books: Reading Canadian Women’s Writing’
1996: Oviedo Universidad (Spain), Conference of the European Association for Commonwealth Studies; Calgary University (Canada), Visiting Professor; Trent University, Temagami (Canada), The Idea of North Conference; University of Leeds (UK). Theatre Worshop Graduate Studies.
1997: Beilingries (Germany), Conference of the German Association for Canadian Studies.
2001: Warsaw University (Poland).

‘Bodies in Trouble’
1997: University of Leeds (UK), Conference Women and Texts/ Les Femmes et les Textes.

‘Face-Work: Coming to the End of the Line. A Study in the Poetry of Frank Davey.
1999: University of Leeds (UK), Revisions of Canadian Literature Conference.
2000: University of Leeds (UK), Theatre Workshop Graduate Studies.

‘The Face, the Mask and Classical Tragedy in the Household: The Rhetoric of Masking in Recent Work by Alice Munro.
2003: Université d’Orléans (France) Alice Munro: L’Écriture du Secret; University of Birmingham (UK) American and Canadian Studies special lecture.
2005: University of California Davis, Arts and Humanities faculty presentation.

‘Roget Falls in Love: How Analytical Thought Stops you Thinking (Crossing Margaret Atwood with bpNichol)’
2007: University of Birmingham (UK), Beyond the Book conference.

Essays

‘Preparing, Sharing and Eating Food in Panniqtuuq, Nunavut’, in ed. L. Hunter Food and Community, (University of Leeds, 2006), pp. 145-168.

‘Women in Science in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries’ in ed. J. Zinsser Men, Women, and the Birthing of Modern Science, (Northern Illinois University Press, 2005), pp. 123-40.

A History of the Book in Britain, (Cambridge University Press, 2002), pp. 514-32.

‘Household Management and Food Texts, 1800-1900’, Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature, Volume 4, third edition, ed. J. Shattock, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000), col. 2735-2754.

‘Food and Cookery Books, 1475-1700’, Oxford Companion to Food, ed. A. Davidson, (Oxford University Press, 1999), pp. 3.

‘Sisters of the Royal Society: The circle of Katherine Jones, Lady Ranelagh’, in eds. L. Hunter and S. Hutton, Women, Science and Medicine 1500-1700 (Stroud: Sutton Publishing, 1997), pp. 178-197.

‘Women, Science and Medicine: Introduction’, with S. Hutton, in eds. L. Hunter and S Hutton, Women, Science and Medicine 1500-1700 (Stroud: Sutton Publishing, 1997), pp. 1-6.

‘Proliferating Publications’, fore. T. Jaine, in ed. C. A. Wilson, Luncheon, Nuncheon and Other Meals (Stroud: Alan Sutton, 1994), pp. 51-70.

‘Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Trends in Food Preserving: Frugality, Nutrition or Luxury’, in ed. C. A. Wilson, Waste Not, Want Not: Food Preservation (Edinburgh University Press, 1991), pp. 134-158.

‘Printing in the Pennines’, in ed. C. A. Wilson, Provincial Foodpaths (Edinburgh University Press, 1991), pp. 1-37.

‘Illusion and Illustration in Cookery Books since 1940’, in ed. C. A. Wilson, The Appetite and the Eye (Edinburgh University Press, 1991), pp. 141-60.

‘Sweet Secrets: The Growth of a Genre’, in ed. C. A. Wilson, Banquetting Stuffe (Edinburgh University Press, 1986), pp. 36-59.

Articles

‘Tea Drinking in England: Ceremony, Scandal and Domestic Bliss’, New Comparison, 24, (Autumn 1997), pp. 108-157. Nominated for the Sophie Coe prize 1999.

‘Bibliography of Jane Grigson’s Published Books’, L. Hunter, I. Holland, G. Stoneham, Petits Propos Culinaires, 38 (1991), pp. 1-21.

‘Cookery Books and Provincial Printing in Northern England’, ed. G. Averley, Nineteenth-Century Short Title Catalogue Newsletter, 6 (July 1989), pp. 3-11.

‘Cookery Books: A Cabinet of Rare Devices and Conceits’, Petits Propos Culinaires, (May 1980), pp. 19-34.

Book Review

Stirring the Pot: A History of African Cuisine, James C McCann, Ohio University Press, 2010. African Studies Bulletin 73 (December 2011), pp. 73-4.

Radio Performances

‘Woman’s Hour’, presentations, 1988 (Radio4).
presentations, 1998 (Radio4).
presentations, 1999 (Radio4).
presentations, 2000 (Radio4).

‘Food Fit For Heroes’, The Army, half hour show, 2002, (Radio4).
The Navy, half hour show, 2002, (Radio4).
The Airforce, half hour show, 2002, (Radio4).

‘Wolsey Great Meal’, one hour show, 2002, (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation).

Computer and Microfiche Products

Database of Household Books published in Britain 1800-1914 (Famulus/Status), (1987).

Nineteenth Century Books on the Household, edited by L. Hunter for The Nineteenth Century Project at the British Library, (1992).

Organisation of Major Conferences

1995: Seminar series ‘Women and medicine in the sixteenth to seventeenth centuries’, Gresham College, London.

Major Invitations: Externally Funded Keynotes and Plenaries

2006: ‘Food and Community in Pannituuq, Nunavut’, to the Ontario Society for the History of Food, Toronto.

2003: ‘Recipes for the Particular: Publishing history in Canada’, opening plenary lecture for the British Association for Canadian Studies annual conference, Leeds.

2000: ‘Mothers of the Royal Society’, keynote to the Metaphysics into Modern Science conference, Cinncinnati University.

1995: ‘Invited as the University of Calgary Visiting Professor, 1995, lecturing on ‘De-scribing performance in bp Nichol’s Selected Organs’ and ‘Can a Man be a Feminist’.

1994: ‘Can a Man be a Feminist: Robert Kroetsch’s The Puppeteer’, to the Strasbourg conference on Canadian Literature, Strasbourg.

1994: ‘Ceremony, Scandal and Domestic Bliss’, invited lecture to the Conference on Food and Performance, Centre for the Performing Arts, Cardiff.

Papers Delivered at Conferences

1980: ‘Nineteenth Century Cookery Books: Practical Texts and the Education of Women’, to the Symposium on Cookery Books, St Anthony’s College, Oxford.

1986: ‘Sweet Secrets: from Incidental Recipe to Book, the Growth of a Literary Genre’, to the Leeds Food History Symposium, University of Leeds.

1986: ‘Are Cookery Books Literature?’ to the Leeds University Adult Education Unit, Middlesborough.

1988: ‘Printing in the Pennines’, to the Leeds Food History Symposium, University of Leeds.

1989: ‘Nineteenth Century Books on Preservation’, to the Leeds Food History Symposium, University of Leeds.

1992: ‘Proliferating Picnics: Specialisation in Cookery Books in the Nineteenth Century’, to the Leeds Food History Symposium, University of Leeds.

1992: ‘Household Books in the Nineteenth Century: Issues in Book History’, to the History of the Book Project: Nineteenth Century conference, Cambridge University.

1993: ‘Domestic and Household texts, alternative voices in women’s studies’ invited lecture to the Department of English Studies, University of Gröningen, Netherlands.

1995: ‘Can a Man be a Feminist?’, performance piece, University of Calgary Art Gallery.

1995: ‘Can a Man be a Feminist’, Performance piece, University of Western Ontario.

1995: (invited lecture) ‘Sisters of the Royal Society: The Circle of Katherine Jones, Lady Ranelagh’, Gresham College London.

1996: ‘Cooking the Books’, Trent University, Canada.

2001: ‘The Friar and the Apothecary: Dealing with Drugs in Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet’, at the Thackray Medical Museum, Leeds.

Related Experience

1986: Co-organised the Leeds Food History Symposium on ‘Banquetting Stuffe’, University of Leeds.

1986: On editorial board of Nineteenth Century Project, Chadwyck-Healey and the British Library.

1988: Helped organise the Leeds Food History Symposium on ‘Provincial Foodpaths’, University of Leeds.

1989: Helped organise the Leeds Food History Symposium ‘Waste Not, Want Not: Food Preservation’.

1989-1991: The Consultant curator for a major exhibition on Food History and Culture at the Victoria and Albert Museum.

1991: Co-organised the Leeds Food History Symposium of ‘Community Foods’.

1993: Co-organised the Leeds Food History Symposium of ‘Structure and Organisation of the English Country House 1500-1900’.

1994: Co-organised the Leeds Food History Symposium, ‘The Country-House Kitchen, 1700-1900: Its Equipment, Storerooms and Staff’.

1995: Co-organised the Leeds Food History Symposium, ‘The Kitchen Garden’.