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Martha Bradley

Martha Bradley ('''' 1740s–1755) was a British cookery book writer. Little is known about her life, except that she published the cookery book ''The British Housewife'' in 1756 and worked as a cook for over thirty years in the fashionable spa town of Bath, Somerset.

Bradley's only printed work, ''The British Housewife'' was released as a 42-issue partwork between January and October 1756. It was published in a two-volume book form in 1758, and is more than a thousand pages long. It is likely that Bradley was dead before the partwork was published. The book follows the French style of , distinguishing Bradley from other female cookery book writers at the time, who focused on the British or English style of food preparation. The work is carefully organised and the recipes taken from other authors are amended, suggesting she was a knowledgeable and experienced cook, able to improve on existing dishes.

Because of the length of ''The British Housewife'', it was not reprinted until 1996; as a result, few modern writers have written extensively on Bradley or her work. Provided by Wikipedia