Elizabeth Robins Pennell

Explores the broad range of Elizabeth Robins Pennell's diverse writing career and interests This collection brings together twelve original interdisciplinary essays on the work of Elizabeth Robins Pennell, the American-born, London-based journalist, author and aesthete who published (or co-published) over twenty books and over a thousand periodical articles between the early 1880s and 1930. It features contributions from critics of English literature, art history, food writing and American Studies. Presenting a transatlantic perspective on this transatlantic figure, the collection also provides critical discussions of several Pennell texts including her Life of Mary Wollstonecraft, Our Sentimental Journey, To Gipsyland, Over the Alps on a Bicycle and The Delights of Delicate Eating and The Lovers as well as her prolific periodical publishing. Dave Buchanan is Associate Professor of English at MacEwan University in Edmonton, Alberta. Kimberly Morse Jones is Associate Professor of Art History at Sweet Briar College in Virginia.