Tabitha Tickletooth

To mark the republication of The Dinner Question (1860) by Prospect Books this year, we reproduce here the introductory remarks by Tom Jaine which appear on the back of the cover of the new edition, and follow these by a sample of Tabitha s prose, which appears overleaf. There is, by the way, a longer introduction to the work by Alan Davidson at the beginning of the new edition; and Tabitha herself may be glimpsed as our frontispiece.