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Mrs. Charles Roundell

Best remembered for practical books on cookery and household management, this Victorian writer also turned her hand to local history. Her work offers a clear, useful glimpse of domestic life in late 19th-century England.

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The Still-Room

The Still-Room

by Mrs. Charles Roundell, Harry Roberts

About the author

Writing as Mrs. Charles Roundell, Julia Anne Elizabeth Tollemache Roundell was an English writer associated with practical household books and historical writing. Sources found during this search identify her as Julia Anne Elizabeth Tollemache Roundell, and note that she was the wife of Charles Savile Roundell, MP.

She is known for Mrs. Roundell's Practical Cookery Book (1898) and for contributing to The Still-Room, a book on drinks, preserves, and other domestic preparations. Her writing is remembered less for literary flourish than for being direct, useful, and closely tied to everyday life.

Roundell also wrote Cowdray: the History of a Great English House, showing an interest beyond the kitchen in English houses and family history. Available records found here describe her as a historian and writer, which fits the range of work published under both her married style and her full name.