Corson, Juliet, an American cooking reformer; born in Roxbury, Mass., Feb. 14, 1842. She established the New York School of Cookery in 1876 and soon achieved celebrity by her writings on cookery and domestic science, her first success being "Fifteen-Cent Dinners," a manual for the poor. She died in New York city, June 18, 1897.
Entry from Everybody's Cyclopedia, 1912.