Elizabeth Robins Pennell
Elizabeth Robins Pennell (actually Elizabeth Robins, born August 20, 1855 in Philadelphia, † February 10, 1936 in New York ) was an American author.
Biography
Elizabeth Robins was born in Philadelphia and attended college at Princeton University. She was the wife of American artist Joseph Pennell and co-author (1857-1926), whom she married in June 1884. He put the pictures for a lot of their books. Their close acquaintance with the painter James McNeill Whistler brought Pannell to a biography of the artist ascribe ( 1906). But the publication postponed by two years (1908), because of a legal dispute over the letters of the artist. She was also the biographer of her Uncle Charles Godfrey Leland. Elizabeth Robins Pennell died on February 10, 1936 in New York.