Alice Kelly – författare

Alice Kelly set up @FromScratchBaker in early 2022 after purchasing a disused horsebox for €600. Turning a renovation project into a successful business, Alice began posting her baking experiences – both the successes and the failures – on TikTok and soon amassed a dedicated following, with millions of followers around the world.In From Scratch: 80 Foolproof Recipes by @fromscratchbaker, from Easy Traybakes to Showstopping Cakes, her hotly anticipated debut book, Alice provides a sweet mix of easy recipes, demystifies patisserie, breaks down advanced concepts to make them accessible, reveals the secrets behind her viral bakes and, above all, makes baking fun for anyone!

Edith Wharton, known primarily for her novels of American high society, was also a war writer. She was one of the first woman writers to be allowed to visit the war zones in France in 1915 and report back on what she saw. This resulting collection of six essays – five of which were originally published in American magazines – presents a fascinating and unique perspective on wartime France by one of America’s great novelists. Written with Wharton’s distinctive literary skills to advocate American intervention in the war, this little-known war text demonstrates that she was a complex and accomplished propagandist. However, these eyewitness accounts also demonstrate a troubling awareness of the human cost of war. Incorporating a wealth of previously unpublished archival material and images, this critical edition aims to bring this neglected text into the field of Wharton studies, allowing critics and enthusiasts to reevaluate her contribution as a war writer and to assess the significance of this period for her literary development.

Reconsiders the relationship between the Great War and modernism through women’s literary representations of deathProvides the first sustained study of death and commemoration in women’s literature in the wartime and postwar periodOffers a reconsideration of the relationship between the First World War and literary modernism through the lens of women’s writing Considers the literary impact of the vast mortality of the First World War and the culture of war commemoration on British and American women’s writingOne of the key questions of modern literature was the problem of what to do with the war dead. Through a series of case studies focusing on nurse narratives, Edith Wharton, Katherine Mansfield, H.D., and Virginia Woolf, as well as visual and material culture, this book provides the first sustained study of women’s literary representations of death and the culture of war commemoration that underlie British and American literary modernism. Considering previously neglected writing by women in the war zones and at home, as well as the marginalised writings of well-known modernist authors, and drawing on international archival research, this book demonstrates the intertwining of modernist, war, and memorial culture, and broadens the canon of war writing.