WPARA OPAR@ ` WTEXT ` IPennell, Elizabeth Robins1855╨1936writer, critic, hostess and cookery expertBorn in Philadelphia on February 21, 1855, Elizabeth Robins was educated in Sacred Heart convent schools in France and Pennsylvania. On leaving school in 1872 she made her home with her father and stepmother in Philadelphia, but she found the life of a debutante trying and unfulfilling. Under the influence of an uncle, the essayist Charles Godfrey Leland, she became interested in the arts and then in writing. In 1881 an article of hers was accepted by the Atlantic Monthly. Several more followed, and she soon began contributing regularly to Philadelphia newspapers and to the weekly American magazine. Through her uncle she received a commission to write text to accompany eight etchings by the young artist Joseph Pennell; their joint effort was published by Scribner╒s Magazine as ╥A Ramble in Old Philadelphia╙ in March 1882. Later that year Elizabeth Robins became art critic for the Philadelphia Press. In June 1884 she and Pennell were married. In the same year she published her first book, Life of Mary Wollstonecraft. Shortly after their marriage the Pennells sailed for Europe, where Joseph was to prepare illustrations for William Dean Howells╒s Tuscan Cities. Stopping first in England, they produced their first joint book, A Canterbury Pilgrimage, the record of a bicycle tour, 1885. They lived in England for the next 33 years, spending most of their summers touring the Continent. Together they produced a great many articles for periodicals and An Italian Pilgrimage, 1886, Our Sentimental Journey through France and Italy, 1888, Two Pilgrims╒ Progress, 1889, Our Journey to the Hebrides, 1889, The Stream of Pleasure, 1891, Play in Provence, 1892, To Gipsyland, 1893, and Over the Alps on a Bicycle, 1898. Pennell frequently substituted for her husband as art critic of the London Star and eventually took over the column entirely. She later wrote an art column for the Daily Chronicle as well, and for five years she conducted a column on cooking for the Pall Mall Gazette. Her cooking columns were later collected in Feasts of Autolycus, the Diary of a Greedy Woman, 1896, Delights of Delicate Eating, 1900, and A Guide for the Greedy, 1923. She and her husband collaborated in the writing of Lithography and Lithographers, 1898, The Life of James McNeill Whistler, written with the cooperation of the subject, a close friend, 1908, and French Cathedrals, Monasteries and Abbeys, and Sacred Sites of France, 1909; they edited Whistler╒s Journal, published in 1921. She wrote Our House and the People In It, 1910, Our House and London Out of Our Windows, 1912, Our Philadelphia, 1914, Nights: Rome, Venice in the Aesthetic Eighties; London, Paris in the Fighting Nineties, 1916, and The Lovers, a novel, 1917. Their London apartment was a favored gathering place for the artists and writers of the city, including George Bernard Shaw, Aubrey Beardsley, W. E. Henley, Phil May, and Edmund Gosse. In 1917 they returned to the United States and four years later settled in Brooklyn. After her husband╒s death in 1926 Pennell supervised the publication of his remaining pictures and the preparation of catalogues raisonÄes of his works in various media, and in 1929 she published the two volume Life and Letters of Joseph Pennell. She died in New York City on February 7, 1936. ╓styl ` J ! ¬ 5¬ $ 5¬ P !I !I / !I á !I ¿ !I R !I e !I ╙ !I σ !I Ω !I δ !I C !I ^ !I π !I ≡ !I 4 !I K !I !I , !I 4 !I d !I l !I é !I è !I ì !I Ä !I Ñ !I ¡ !I ├ !I ╦ !I █ !I π !I ∩ !I √ !I !I 5¬ !I ┼ !I ╘ !I !I , !I [ !I ï !I Æ !I « !I ║ !I ╨ !I !I ) !I 1 !I S !I £ !I ß !I ⌡ !I
