Early life Nicholson was born in 1866 at
Barleythorpe, Rutland, to Thomas Nicholson and Isabella Nicholson.
Vegetarian activism Nicholson originally intended to pursue a literary career, but became a
vegetarian after she was appointed assistant secretary of the
London Vegetarian Society. In the 1890s Nicholson worked in the office of the
London Vegetarian Association. According to
Charles W. Forward's
Fifty Years of Food Reform,
May Yates suggested that Nicholson should be appointed to assist her in the office after the association's work increased. Forward stated that Nicholson had previously worked with Yates on an exhibition and that, although she was not then a vegetarian, she was appointed. After Yates resigned, Nicholson became secretary of the association.
Hilda Kean states that Nicholson established a children's dinner fund for underfed children, distributing cheap meals consisting of vegetable soup, wholemeal bread and wholemeal currant bread. By 1907, Nicholson was secretary of the
Vegetarian Federal Union. In October that year,
Good Health named her, with C. Herman Senn and the magazine's editor, as a judge for a Christmas cookery competition.
Writing and editing In 1897, Nicholson published
The Jubilee Cookery Book: Vegetarian Recipes, with a preface by
Arnold Hills. The book gave weekly menus and recipes for vegetarian meals, including soups, savouries, puddings and pies. In 1898, Nicholson published early recipes for
vegetarian sausages and a vegetarian
shepherd's pie in
The Vegetarian. Nicholson was the first editor of ''
The Children's Realm'', a monthly vegetarian magazine for children founded in 1906 and published by the Vegetarian Federal Union. She was later succeeded by A. M. Cole.
Personal life and death Nicholson married Arthur C. Field at
Godstone, Surrey, in 1919. He was a vegetarianism activist and a member of the council of the London Vegetarian Society. Nicholson died on 13 January 1931 in Godstone, aged 64. == Publications ==