Catherine Buckton, 'Food and Home Cookery' (1890)

Catherine Mary Buckton (née Williams, 1826-1904) was a British campaigner and writer. She was based in Leeds, UK, and strongly believed in the education of women, and promoted hygienic practices.[1]

Biography

Catherine Buckton was born in Stoke Newington and was one of nine children. Her father was a surgeon specialising in the treatment of cholera and a pioneer of public health reform.[2] She married Joseph Buckton, a successful cloth merchant in 1848. Buckton became the first woman in Leeds to hold elected public office when she became a member of the Leeds School Board in 1873.[3]

She wrote a number of books: 'Health in the House, 25 Lectures on Elementary Physiology In It's Application To The Daily Wants of Man and Animals Delivered To The Wives and Children of Working-Men in Leeds and Saltaire' (1876 [4]), 'Food and Home Cookery', 'Our Dwellings, Healthy and Unhealthy' (1885 [5][6]), 'Town and Window Gardening, Including the Structures, Habits And Uses Of Plants, A Course Of 16 Lectures' (1879[7]), and 'Comfort and Cleanliness (1894 [8])'

Books

  • 'Health in the House, 25 Lectures on Elementary Physiology In It's Application To The Daily Wants of Man and Animals Delivered To The Wives and Children of Working-Men in Leeds and Saltaire' (1876 [4])
This was based on a series of lectures given over a 2 year period to children aged between 10-13. She used Germ Theory to explain the risk of infection, and used anatomy and physiology as an aid to learning (page x, preface [9] ).
  • 'Town and Window Gardening, Including the Structures, Habits And Uses Of Plants, A Course Of 16 Lectures (Given Out Of School Hours to Pupil -Teachers And Children Attending The Leeds Board Schools)' (1879 [10])
Based upon a series of lectures given to children, includes an introduction to the scientific basis of gardening, as well as practical advice.
  • 'Our Dwellings, Healthy and Unhealthy (Addressed To Girls Attending The Leeds Board Schools' (1885 [5])
Aimed at girls aged 9 and above, written with explanations in basic science, and simple experiments to 'explain the nature of good and bad air, ventilation, and why we have fevers'.

References

  1. "Catherine Mary Buckton (1826-1904) - They Lived in Leeds - Thoresby Society". www.thoresby.org.uk. Retrieved 22 November 2020.
  2. "Catherine Mary Buckton". Archived from the original on 29 October 2021.
  3. "Buckton [née Williams], Catherine Mary (1826/7–1904), promoter of household science teaching". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. 2004. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/52270. Retrieved 22 November 2020. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  4. 1 2 Buckton, Catherine M. (1876). Health in the house, 25 lectures.
  5. 1 2 Buckton, Catherine M. (1885). Our Dwellings, Healthy and Unhealthy ... Longmans, Green.
  6. "Catherine M Buckton - Our dwellings healthy and unhealthy : addressed to girls attending the Leeds Board Schools / by Catherine M. Buckton". www.rct.uk. Retrieved 22 November 2020.
  7. "FOOD AND HOME COOKERY by [EDUCATION.] BUCKTON, Catherine M." Deborah Coltham Rare Books. Retrieved 22 November 2020.
  8. "Catherine Mary Buckton (1826-1904) - They Lived in Leeds - Thoresby Society". www.thoresby.org.uk. Retrieved 22 November 2020.
  9. Buckton, Catherine M. (1876). Health in the house, 25 lectures.
  10. Buckton, Catherine M. (1879). Town and window gardening, 16 lectures.

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