Assoc for Scottish LiteratureJun 12, 2025

Christian Isobel Johnstone (1781–1857) – novelist, journalist, & editor – was born #OTD, 12 June.

Johnstone was editor for more than a decade of Tait’s Edinburgh Magazine, a journal famous for its vigorous liberal viewpoints & incisive literary reviews, & wrote some of the most remarkable Scottish novels of the #Romantic era.

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https://www.scottishwomenwritersontheweb.net/writers-a-to-z/christian-isobel-johnstone

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Christian Isobel Johnstone — Scottish Women Writers on the Web

Christian Isobel Johnstone (1781-1857) was a novelist, journalist, and editor, who ran Tait's Edinburgh Magazine for over a decade. She wrote novels and short stories for children and adults, and pioneered the genre of the national tale in Scotland. But her best-selling work was a cookery book, Th

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‘Transatlanticism and “Natural Sympathy” in Christian Isobel Johnstone’s CLAN-ALBIN: A National Tale (1815)’

Jennifer Marie Van Vliet, International Review of Scottish Studies 37 (2012)

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https://www.researchgate.net/publication/299501048_Transatlanticism_and_Natural_Sympathy_in_Christian_Isobel_Johnstone's_Clan-Albin_A_National_Tale_1815

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Under the pseudonym “Meg Dods” (a character from Walter Scott’s ST RONAN’S WELL) Christian Isobel Johnstone also wrote THE COOK & HOUSEWIFE’S MANUAL. Much of the advice is presented via the members of the equally fictitious Cleikum Club: “a small gathering of absurd diners who do not much like or trust each other”

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https://www.britishfoodinamerica.com/A-Number-of-Noteworthy-Women/the-practical/Notes-on-curing-ham-from-Christian-Isobel-Johnstone-two-French-interlopers-Theodora-FitzGibbon-David-Tanis-and-well-us/

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“By using Scott’s characters to satirise the habits of male cookbook authors and champion women’s knowledge and writing, Johnstone also points to the underlying snobbery that might drive readers to view literature as more worthy of reading than ‘unimportant’ cookbooks”

—Dr Lindsay Middleton on gender, gastronomy & intertextual play in THE COOK & HOUSEWIFE’S MANUAL

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https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2024/11/gender-gastronomy-and-intertextual-play-in-the-cook-and-housewifes-manual/

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‘“Let us to the wark”, she cried’: Gender, Gastronomy and Intertextual Play in The Cook and Housewife’s Manual - The Bottle Imp

‘[“What a style o’ language!” whispered Mrs Dods; “but I maun look after the scouring o’ the kettles!.”]’. So comes the parenthetical exclamation of Margaret (Meg) Dods, a fictional character in Sir Walter Scott’s novel, Saint Ronan’s Well (1823). This sentence does not come from Scott’s novel, set in a spa town in the Scottish borders, but […]

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