Elizabeth Strong Worthington was an American author active during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Born in 1851, she began her professional publishing career in 1888 with the simultaneous release of two distinct books: When Peggy Smiled: A Love Story and The Biddy Club. Throughout her writing career, she occasionally adopted the masculine pen name Griffith A. Nicholas, a common practice that allowed her to navigate the gendered expectations of the contemporary publishing industry.\n\nWorthington's subsequent literary output focused heavily on domestic life, marriage, and social satire. In 1898, she published The Little Brown Dog alongside one of her most notable and enduringly discussed works, How to Cook Husbands. She followed this success in 1900 with a companion volume, The Gentle Art of Cooking Wives, which served as her final published book before her death in 1916. Her humorous and satirical take on marital dynamics and domestic advice in these works has continued to attract occasional scholarly and cultural interest, including retrospective discussions in the twenty-first century.
