A Canterbury Pilgrimage: Ridden, Written, and Illustrated by Joseph and Elizabeth Robins Pennell

Author / Editor
Brown, Peter, ed.

Title
A Canterbury Pilgrimage: Ridden, Written, and Illustrated by Joseph and Elizabeth Robins Pennell

Published
Canterbury : Yorick Books, 1990.

Series
Facsimile Reprints.

Description
Published originally: London: Seely, 1885.
Records how two Americans from Pennsylvania made a honeymooon journey by tandem bicycle from London to Canterbury in the summer of 1884. Elizabeth Robbins Pennell writes with a keen appreciation of Chaucer's earlier pilgrimage. Joseph Pennell introduces numerous comparisons between medieval and Victorian wayfaring.

Contributor
Pennell, Joseph.
Pennell, Elizabeth Robins.

Chaucer Subjects
Canterbury Tales--General.