Elizabeth Robins Pennell

Nights: Rome, Venice, in the Aesthetic Eighties; London, Paris, in the Fighting Nineties (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

Elizabeth Robins Pennell (February 21, 1855 – February 7, 1936) was an American writer who, for most of her adult life, made her home in London. A recent researcher summed her up as "an adventurous, accomplished, self-assured, well-known columnist, biographer, cookbook collector, and art critic"; in addition, she wrote travelogues, mainly of European cycling voyages, and memoirs, centred on her London salon. Her biographies included the first in almost a century of the proto-feminist Mary Wollstonecraft, one of her uncle the folklorist Charles Godfrey Leland, and one of her friend the painter Whistler. In recent years, her art criticism has come under scrutiny, and her food criticism has been reprinted.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Krill Press
• Seitenzahl: 262
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Februar 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781531228705
• Artikelnr.: 54254320

Autorenporträt

Elizabeth Robins Pennell (1855–1936) was an American author and critic who made significant contributions to the literary and cultural discourse of her time. Her distinct prose style and insightful observations were shaped by her extensive travels and expatriate life in Europe. One of her acclaimed works, 'Nights: Rome, Venice, in the Aesthetic Eighties; London, Paris, in the Fighting Nineties' provides a vivid account of the cultural transformation in major European cities during two consequential decades. In this book, Pennell offers a rich tapestry of social life, artistic fervor, and the intellectual spirit that defined the fin-de-siècle period. Her writing is often characterized by its narrative liveliness and attention to the details of daily life, which she crafts into broader commentaries on the aesthetics and societal norms of the times. As a woman writer in a predominantly male literary world, Pennell demonstrated both courage and prowess, establishing herself as a keen observer and a fluent chronicler of the unique interplay between urban life and artistic movements. Her works remain valuable resources for cultural historians and general readers interested in the transition from Victorian to modern sensibilities in European art and society.