The Feasts of Autolycus, the Diary of a Greedy Woman

by Elizabeth Robins Pennell

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Genres: Food, Nonfiction, Culinary

266 pages, Hardcover

First published October 20, 1896

About the author

Elizabeth Robins Pennell was an American writer who, for most of her adult life, made her home in London. A recent researcher summed her up as "an adventurous, accomplished, self-assured, well-known columnist, biographer, cookbook collector, and art critic"; in addition, she wrote travelogues, mainly of European cycling voyages, and memoirs, centred on her London salon. Her biographies included the first in almost a century of the proto-feminist Mary Wollstonecraft, one of her uncle the folklorist Charles Godfrey Leland, and one of her friend the painter Whistler. In recent years, her art criticism has come under scrutiny, and her food criticism has been reprinted. She was married to Joseph Pennell.

Reviews

[Greta · Rating 4 out of 5]

Before there was Ruth Reichl, there was MFK Fisher. Before MFK Fisher there was Elizabeth Robins Pennell and her 'Diary of a Greedy Woman.' I happened upon this book when I went to the library to find 'Serve It Forth'- they were on the shelf next to each other. I adore these female foodies. I am one, after all!