Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Illustrations vii
4. Acknowledgements viii
5. Notes on Contributors ix
6. Introduction 1
7. 1. Authority, Deflection and Role Play in Elizabeth Robins Pennell’s Writing Life 11
8. 2. Rough Crossings: The Transatlantic Fate of Elizabeth Robins Pennell’s Life of Mary Wollstonecraft 33
9. 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 64
10. 4. Over the Alps in a Bad Mood: Elizabeth Robins Pennell as Contrarian 84
11. 5. The Modern Woman as a ‘Scholar-Gypsy’: Elizabeth Robins Pennell’s To Gipsyland 109
12. 6. Elizabeth Robins Pennell’s To Gipsyland: Intimate Invasions and Nostalgic Longings 130
13. 7. The Gourmand as Essayist: Irony and Style in the Culinary Essays of Elizabeth Robins Pennell 153
14. 8. Culinary Ekphrasis: Writing Against Science in Elizabeth Robins Pennell’s The Delights of Delicate Eating 172
15. 9. The Curious Appetite of Elizabeth Robins Pennell 191
16. 10. Elizabeth Robins Pennell as an Early Champion of Popular Art 213
17. 11. ‘At the Museum comme à l’ordinaire’: Elizabeth Robins Pennell and Exhibition Culture 236
18. 12. Elizabeth Robins Pennell’s Wartime Prose: Nights and The Lovers 256
19. Afterword 272
20. Index 281