Elizabeth Robins Pennell

Elizabeth Robins Pennell (actually Elizabeth Robins ; born August 20, 1855 in Philadelphia , † February 10, 1936 in New York ) was an American author .

biography

Elizabeth Robins was born in Philadelphia and attended college at Princeton University . She was the wife of the American artist and co-author Joseph Pennell (1857-1926), whom she married in June 1884. He made the pictures available for many of her books. Their close acquaintance with the painter James McNeill Whistler led Pannell to write a biography of the artist (1906). However, publication was postponed for two years (1908) because of a legal dispute over the artist's letters. Elizabeth Robins Pennell was also the biographer of her uncle Charles Godfrey Leland . She died in New York on February 10, 1936.

Works (selection)

• 1884 Life of Mary Wollstonecraft
• 1889 Our Journey to the Hebrides (with Joseph Pennell)
• 1891 The Stream of Pleasure: A Narrative of a Journey on the Thames from Oxford to London (with Joseph Pennell)
• 1893 To Gipsyland
• 1896 The Feasts of Autolycus: the Diary of a Greedy Woman
• 1906 Charles Godfrey Leland: a Biography
• 1908 The Life of James McNeill Whistler (with Joseph Pennell)
• 1914 Our Philadelphia
• 1910 Our House and the People in It
• 1916 Nights: Rome & Venice in the Aesthetic Eighties, London & Paris in the Fighting Nineties
• 1917 The Lovers
• 1921 The Whistler Journal
• 1928 The Art of Whistler
• 1929 The Life and Letters of Joseph Pennell
• 1930 Whistler the Friend

literature

• Raven Grimassi: Encyclopedia of Wicca & Witchcraft , Llewellyn Worldwide (2000)
• Walter Sickert: The Complete Writings on Art , Oxford University Press (2000)
• Graeme Sullivan: Art Practice as Research: Inquiry in the Visual Arts , Sage Publications Inc. (2005)