With today being Mother’s Day (traditionally known as Mothering Sunday) in the UK, my thoughts went to mothers in literature and the extent to which they are portrayed as food providers and cooks for their children. Continue reading “Mothers and food”
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Feeding children
Back in 2015 I wrote a post – The Hungry Child – about Jane Eyre. In that novel, published in 1847, Charlotte Bronte describes in heartfelt terms the hunger that Jane and her fellow pupils experience at the harsh boarding school Lowood.
More than 170 years later and, depressingly, children are still going hungry. Continue reading “Feeding children”