Elizabeth Robins Pennell
Due Date: 12-01-2017
Proposals are invited for a volume on the work and life of Elizabeth Robins Pennell, the American-born, London-based journalist and author or coauthor of over twenty books and hundreds of periodical articles between the early 1880s and 1930.
Pennell was a pioneer in the emerging field of cycle-touring literature, an important voice in late-Victorian art criticism, an authority on James McNeill Whistler, a highly original food writer, and an accomplished biographer. She was a transatlantic figure, whose work was published and appreciated in both England and the United States, and she was an unconventional, independent woman who resisted the New Woman label of her age.
The edited collection, the first of its kind on Pennell, will be organized into sections that represent her main interests: cycling, art criticism, travel writing, food and cookbooks, and biography. Submissions on any aspect of Pennell’s work and life are welcome. Proposals, 300 words in length, are due by 1 December 2017, and should include a short CV and a 50-word biographical note. Send proposals to pennellcollection@gmail.com.
Authors will be notified of their acceptance by 15 January 2018. Final essays are due by 1 July 2018 and should be between 6,000–8,000 words.