Oakman, Renée

[MANUSCRIPT] Cook Book Renée Oakman - Knox School

c. 1920. Wraps. 31 pages. Renée Oakman attended the Knox School in Briarcliff Manor while residing in Manhattan with her parents John Saunders Oakman, an Architect, and her Mother, Margaret Curzon Marquaund, a cousin of Edward Everett Hale. Part of the New York social elite, Renée spent her summers on her mother's family estate in Newburyport, MA. This cookbook, written in cursive while Renée was in her formative years, is filled with delicious baking recipes and a few savory recipes as well. Renée would later become a "Powers" model and marry four times. She probably did not use this book much after her early teens but it is interesting to get a glimpse of how young women were educated at the Knox school in the early 1920's. Wraps heavily rubbed with the spine barely holding. Brown wraps, cloth spine. Poor. Item #2664

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