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Sara Pennell

is NACBS-Folger Institute short-term fellow 2024-25, researching the working worlds of middling women in 17th-century England. She is using the Folger Shakespeare Library’s world-class collection of recipe collections to look for evidence of those compiled by young women who might have been at school or under the care of a governess or tutor at the time they were begun.
Finding Beulah
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Finding Beulah

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Sara Pennell

Fellow Sara Pennell hunts down the former owner of one the Folger’s many recipe books.