Madame Bovary’s Image gallery | Wedding Cake created by the Oxford Cake Shop | TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities

Cartoon of a stage curtain, enclosing a photo of a cake decorated in the shape of a castle

A close up of an ornately decorated cake in the shape of a castle, on top of the castle is a cherub on a swing in a garden

Large cake in the shape of a castle atop a Greek pantheon-style building

Lucy, one of the Cake Shop’s creative team, with her work of art.

A woman introducing steve goddard, stood in front of a cake shop

Prof. Jennifer Yee is welcoming Steve Goddard, Deputy Lord Mayor of Oxford and Flaubert enthusiast.

This cake was created to mark the bicentenary of Flaubert’s birth in December 1821. For the different blogs in Professor Jennifer Yee's ‘Making Madame Bovary’s Wedding Cake’ project scroll down to the bottom of this page.

You can find the other blogs about the Making Madame Bovary’s Wedding Cake Project here.

Blog posts:

Blog 1: The Cake, Emma’s Romantic dreams, and le bovarysme

Blog 2: The Cake and Romanticism

Blog 3: The Cake, the idée reçue and the Invention of Kitsch

Blog 4: The Wedding Cake, Charles Bovary’s Hat, and the Impossible Object

Blog 5: Visual Riffing on Madame Bovary’s Wedding Cake

Blog 6: Madame Bovary’s Wedding Cake created by the Oxford Cake Shop