Edith Clarke (cookery teacher)

Edith Clarke (née Nicolls MBE, 27 October 1844 – 20 August 1926) was a British cookery teacher and writer.

[1] In August 1849, her mother married again, to novelist George Meredith, and her half-brother Arthur was born in 1853.

From 1857 until her death in 1861, Mary left the marriage, leaving Edith to live with her maternal grandmother Lady Eleanor Nicolls.

In 1875 she was appointed second principal of the National Training School of Cookery in London, which had been established two years prior by family friend Henry Cole.

Under her maiden name, she contributed a biographical note to Henry Cole's 1895 edition of the works of her maternal grandfather, Thomas Love Peacock.