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May E. (May Elizabeth) Southworth
Best known for charming short fiction and a shelf of early 20th-century cookbooks, this San Francisco writer moved easily between storytelling and practical kitchen advice. Her work ranges from the whimsical animal tales of The Great Small Cat, and Others to compact recipe collections like One Hundred & One Mexican Dishes.
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The Great Small Cat, and Others: Seven Tales
by May E. (May Elizabeth) Southworth
About the author
May Elizabeth Southworth was an American author whose books were published in the early 1900s. Library and public-domain records connect her with San Francisco, and her surviving work shows two clear sides of her writing life: light fiction and highly focused cookbooks.
She is credited with The Great Small Cat, and Others: Seven Tales, a collection that gives a good sense of her more imaginative side. She also compiled a long run of small-format culinary books, including One Hundred & One Mexican Dishes, One Hundred and One Beverages, One Hundred and One Salads, One Hundred and One Candies, and other recipe volumes that were designed to be handy, direct, and useful.
Available records indicate that she died in 1936. While detailed biographical information appears to be scarce, the books themselves have kept her name in circulation, especially among readers interested in vintage cookery, regional food writing, and overlooked women authors of the early 20th century.