Cakes & Ale A Dissertation on Banquets Interspersed with Various Recipes, More or Less Original, and anecdotes, mainly veracious

CHAPTER XXI

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GASTRONOMY IN FICTION AND DRAMA

Thomas Carlyle--Thackeray--Harrison Ainsworth--Sir Walter Scott--Miss Braddon--Marie Corelli--F. C. Philips--Blackmore--Charles Dickens--_Pickwick_ reeking with alcohol--Brandy and oysters--_Little Dorrit_--_Great Expectations_--Micawber as a punch-maker--_David Copperfield_--"Practicable" food on the stage--"Johnny" Toole's story of Tiny Tim and the goose 246-259