Elizabeth Robins Pennell

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Elizabeth Robins Pennell (February 21, 1855 - February 7, 1936) was an American author. She was the wife of American artist and fellow author Joseph Pennell, whom she married in June of 1884[1]. He provided the illustrations for many of her books. She, with her husband, was a friend and correspondent of James McNeill Whistler. She wrote a lengthy biography of Whistler in collaboration with her husband, as well as biographical studies of Charles Godfrey Leland, who was her uncle[2], Mary Wollstonecraft, and, after his death, her husband. Other works include travelogues and personal memoirs. She was also a contributor of art and food criticism to periodicals including the Daily Chronicle and the Pall Mall Gazette[3]. Pennell often made her contributions under the nom de plume "N. N."[4]. She died in New York City in February of 1936[1].

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  • Life of Mary Wollstonecraft (1884)
  • Our Journey to the Hebrides (With Joseph Pennell) (1889)
  • The Stream of Pleasure: A Narrative of a Journey on the Thames from Oxford to London (With Joseph Pennell) (1891)
  • To Gipsyland (1893)
  • The Feasts of Autolycus: the Diary of a Greedy Woman (1896)
  • Charles Godfrey Leland: a Biography (1906)
  • The Life of James McNeill Whistler (With Joseph Pennell) (1908)
  • Our Philadelphia (1914)
  • Our House and the People in It (1910)
  • Nights: Rome & Venice in the Aesthetic Eighties, London & Paris in the Fighting Nineties (1916)
  • The Lovers (1917)
  • The Whistler Journal (1921)
  • The Art of Whistler (1928)
  • The Life and Letters of Joseph Pennell (1929)
  • Whistler the Friend (1930)
  • (anthologized in) American Food Writing: An Anthology with Classic Recipes, ed. Molly O'Neill (Library of America, 2007) ISBN 1598530054

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  1. ^ a b Biographical Sketch of Joseph and Elizabeth R. Pennell [1]
  2. ^ Grimassi, Raven. Encyclopedia of Wicca & Witchcraft. Page 252. Llewellyn Worldwide, 2000.
  3. ^ Robins, Anna Gruetzner. Walter Sickert: the Complete Writings on Art. Page 84. Oxford University Press, 2000.
  4. ^ Sullivan, Graeme. Art Practice as Research: Inquiry in the Visual Arts. Page 14. Sage Publications Inc., 2005.

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