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Doris Lytton (January 23, 1893 – December 2, 1953) was an English actress on stage and in silent films, and a businesswoman in the 1920s. Later, as Doris Lytton Toye, she wrote a cookbook tailored for post-war shortages, Contemporary Cookery (1947).
Silent films featuring Doris Lytton included The Blue Bird (1910), The Brass Bottle (1914), The Single Man (1919), Mutiny (1925).Denis Gifford, ed., British Film Catalogue (Routledge 2016). She was also in the cast of a 1942 BBC Home Service production of The King Comes to His Own, a Biblical drama by Dorothy L. Sayers.Dorothy L. Sayers, The Man Born to Be King (Wipf & Stock Publishers 2011): 333.
In 1920, Lytton opened a shop called "Cinderella" in the West End of London, offering repairs for "expensive evening dress shoes". "Actress Shoe Repairer" The Shoe Repairer and Dealer (October 1, 1920): 32. A newspaper writer praised her effort as "an example of the new woman who has gone into business for herself and made good." "This Cinderella Needs No Magic Wand to Transform Slippers" Ogden Standard-Examiner (August 20, 1920): 5. via Newspapers.com
Lytton was known to sew and embroider backstage, and enjoyed cooking. "I have loved to cook ever since I was a wee thing and had a toy cook stove," she explained to an American reporter while on tour in the United States in 1913.Mae Tinee, "Doris Doesn't Like Matinee Gigglers" Chicago Sunday Tribune (January 19, 1913): 15. via Newspapers.com From 1945 to 1947 Doris Lytton Toye wrote a monthly cookery column for Vogue magazine, with illustrations by Denton Welch.James Methuen-Campbell, Denton Welch: Writer and Artist (Tauris Parke Paperbacks 2004): 157. It featured advice particular to the rationing conditions in England during and after World War II. For example, it suggested barley or pasta as workable alternatives to rice, which was not available. A cookbook based on her columns, Contemporary Cookery, was published in 1947.Katherine Knight, Spuds, Spam ad Eating for Victory: Rationing in the Second World War (History Press 2011). The cookbook's additional illustrations were provided by John Minton.Daniel J. Murtaugh, ed., Good Night, Beloved Comrade: The Letters of Denton Welch to Eric Oliver (University of Wisconsin Press 2017): 203.
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