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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Christine Bachman-Sanders
• Kimberly Morse Jones
• Dave Buchanan

Titel

Elizabeth Robins Pennell’s To Gipsyland: Intimate Invasions and Nostalgic Longings

Ist Teil von

• Elizabeth Robins Pennell, 2021, p.130-152

Ort / Verlag

Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2021

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• In 1891, Elizabeth Robins Pennell set out with her husband, Joseph Pennell, and her bicycle to search for an authentic embodiment of unconventional freedom: the ‘gipsy’.¹ Already a seasoned cycle-tourist and travel writer, Pennell published the travelogue To Gipsyland in 1892, an account of perhaps ‘the most significant of many pilgrimages for the Pennells’ because of the deep sense of kinship both Elizabeth and Joseph felt towards the (romanticised) ‘gipsy’ existence.² The travelogue details her early self-described ‘infatuation’ with Romani people and culture and culminates in an extensive bicycle and train trip through parts of Austria, Hungary and present-day Romania