Audrey Ellis
Script error: No such module "AfC submission catcheck". Audrey Ellis was a journalist and writer of cookery books from 1952 to 1985. Although not trained in cookery she published 66 cookery books and two novels. She began working in jounalism in 1951. As she spoke fluent French she was hired by Newnes Press to assist a Parisian Chef who had been contracted to work as the Cookery Editor of the national magazine Modern Woman. The Chef found his role unacceptable and resigned without notice. Audrey took on the work while Newnes looked for a replacement, but after three months the Company decided to appoint her. Ellis worked as Cookery editor until 1968. She published "Casserole Cookery" in 1965, and then was the uncredited auther of "The Womans Own Book of Cake Decorating" She continued regularly to published books until retiring from writing in 1985. These included several works on using freezers and a set of four seasonal books. In about 1968 she left Newnes and became editor of Women's Books for the publisher Paul Hamlyn. During this time she designed and co-wrote the Hamlyn "All Colour Cook Book with Mary Berry and Anne Body. The book was published in 1970. It became a best seller, eventually selling over 3,500,000 copies. All three authors were paid a fixed sum of £1000 for their work. After sales of 2.5 million had been achieved there was a celebratory event and each author received a leather bound edition of the book, but no further fee.
The All Colour Cook Book has a distictive layout because its material was originally intended to be published as a set of collectable cards to be distributed through magazines. The project fell through, and Ellis proposed the complete recipe, cooking instructions and photograph of each dish be presented as pages of a conventional book.
In 1974 Ellis left Hamlyns to become a ful time writer. She continued to produce cookery books and developed skills she had first used in Modern Womman to design and manage the photography needed for her work. She attempted to produce fiction and published two novels "Jenetta" and "Pearls are for tears". She was married three times. First to Alan Ellis (1943 to 1955). Second to Julian Brown (1956 to 1966). Third to Frederick Gelhar (1967 to 1989). She had one child, Christopher Ellis, born 1945. Ellis died in 2008.
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