Dave Buchanan is Assistant Professor at MacEwan University in Alberta, Canada.

Kimberly Morse-Jones is Associate Professor in the Department of Visual Arts, Sweet Briar College in Virginia.

Acknowledgments; Notes on Contributors; Introduction, Dave Buchanan and Kimberly Morse Jones; 1. Authority, Deflection, and Role Play in Pennell's Writing Life, Dave Buchanan; 2. Rough Crossings: The Transatlantic Fate of Pennell's Life of Mary Wollstonecraft, James Diedrick; 3. 'Sentiment might do for a post-chaise, but [it is] impossible on a tricycle': Elizabeth Robins Pennell's Dialogue with Sterne in Our Sentimental Journey, Una Brogan; 4. Over the Alps in a Bad Mood: Elizabeth Robins Pennell as Contrarian, Dave Buchanan; 5. The Modern Woman as a 'Scholar-Gypsy': Elizabeth Robins Pennell's To Gipsyland, Holly A. Laird; 6. Elizabeth Robins Pennell's To Gipsyland: Intimate Invasions and Nostalgic Longings, Christine Bachman-Sanders; 7. The Gourmand as Essayist: Irony and Style in the Culinary Essays of Elizabeth Robins Pennell, Alex Wong; 8. Culinary Ekphrasis: Writing Against Science in Pennell's The Delights of Delicate Eating, Bonnie Shishko; 9. Curious Appetite of Elizabeth Robins Pennell, Alice McLean; 10. Elizabeth Robins Pennell as Early Champion of Popular Art, Kimberly Morse Jones; 11. 'at the Museum comme a l'ordinaire': Elizabeth Robins Pennell and Exhibition Culture, Meaghan Clarke; 12. Elizabeth Robins Pennell's War-time Prose: Nights and The Lovers, Jane S. Gabin; Afterword, Kimberly Morse Jones; Index.

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.