Books by "Elizabeth Robins Pennell"
12 books found
In the 1890s American journalist Elizabeth L. Banks became an international phenomenon through a series of newspaper articles. Disguising herself in various costumes, Banks investigated and made public the working conditions of women in London. Writing from the perspective of an American girl, she explored and exposed a variety of employment, ranging from parlor maid to flower girl to American heiress. Banks demonstrated the capability of women for positions in journalism long held only by men.
A Canterbury Pilgrimage / An Italian Pilgrimage
by Elizabeth Robins Pennell, Joseph Pennell
2015 · University of Alberta
Contains reprint of A Canterbury pilgrimage and An Italian pilgrimage.
Biography of Joseph Pennell, the American illustrator, including extracts from many of his letters.
"Our great ambition when we first set out on our tricycle, three years ago, was to ride from London to Rome. We did not then know exactly why we wanted to do this, nor do we now. The third part of the journey was 'ridden, written, and wrought into a work" before the second part was begun; and, moreover, when and where we could not ride with ease -- across the Channel and over the Alps, for example --- we went by boat and train. In our simplicity we thought by publishing the story of our journey, we could show the world at large, and perhaps Mr. Ruskin in particular, that the oft-regretted delights of travelling in days of coach and post-chaise, destroyed on the coming of the railroad, were once more to be had by means of tricycle or bicycle. We can only hope that critic and reader are not, like Mr. Ruskin, prepared to spend all their best "bad language" "in reprobation of bi-tri-and-4-5-6- or 7-cycles," and that the riding we found so beautiful will not to them, as to him, be a but a vain wriggling on wheels. We also thought we might prove to the average cycler how much better it is to spend spare time and money in making Pilgrims' Progresses and Sentimental Journeys than in hanging around race-tracks. However that may be, we have at length accomplished the object of our riding, and that is the great matter after all. As to future rides and records, if we make any, it is our intention to for ever keep them to ourselves, and so -- spare the public."--