Index

Bold page numbers indicate illustrations.

Abate of Monte Oliveto, 76–77, 79–81, 82–83, 84

Abate of Negro, 41

accidents, 48–49, 61–62, 104, 107–08, 114

Albergo dell’ Aquila, 58–59

Albergo della Stella, 92–93, 94, 95

Albergo Marzocco, 86, 89

Aldrich, Thomas B., xxiii

Allen, George, xxxiii

Allen, Thomas, xv, 118n13

Arno River, 49–50, 53

Assisi, 102–03

Assisi, St. Francis of, 101, 105

Baglioni, Atalanta, 97–98, 132n88

bandits, 61

Bernardino of Siena, 129n52

bersaglieri, 106

bicycles

boneshakers, xiii, xxiv, xlii, 133n99

clubs, xiv, xvi, xxiv, xxxii, 125n18

high-wheel, xii, xvii–xix, xxiv

invention of, xiii

in Italy, 106

and long-distance travel, xiv–xv

and racing, xiv

safety, xiii, xxxix, xl, 118n11

See also cycling literature; leisure cycle touring

Blackheath, 8

Blas, Gil, 95

Boccaccio, 54, 56–57

Bologna travellers, 110

boneshakers, xiii, xxiv, xlii, 133n99

Borghetto, 110

Boughton, 28

Boughton Hill, 28–29

bowls, game of, 73

Bull Inn, 125n23

Bunyan, John, xxxvii, 126n3, 126n5

Buonconvento, 72–73

Canary, Dan, xix, 119n23

Canterbury, 30–37

Canterbury Cathedral, 35–37

A Canterbury Pilgrimage (1885)

critical reception of, xi–xii, 120n40, 122n53

described, xxxi

publishing, xxxi–xxxii, 120n41

reasons for success of, xxxiii–xxxv

Capraia, 50

Castel Nuovo, 114

Castiglione del Lago, 90

Catherine of Siena, 70, 122n56, 128n38

The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, xx, xxx, xxxi, xxxii

Certaldo, 54–57

Chatham, 20

Chaucer, Geoffrey, xxxv

cherry orchards, 21–22

Chiusure, 78, 79, 82

cholera, 48, 59, 127n8

Civita Castellana, 111–12

Clitumnus, valley of, 105, 133n95

Convertible, 120n36

Cortona, 70–71, 92–94

Coventry Rotary Convertible tandem tricycle, xxx

Crawford, Marion, 64

Crayford, 9–10

cycling literature

boom in interest, xix–xx, 119n25

and guidebooks, xviii

novels, 119n26

Pennells’ contribution to, ix–x, xi–xiii

and success of A Canterbury Pilgrimage, xxxiii–xxxv

Cyclists’ Touring Club, xvi, 125n18

Dartford, 12

Deptford, 8

Diavolo, Fra, 113

Dickens, Charles, xxxv, 17, 124n17

diligence, 97

Dodge, Pryor, xii

donkey carts, 6, 8, 71–72, 110

Dulborough, 17–18, 125n19

dwarf, 105–06

Edward, Prince, 37, 125n33

Egidio, Fra, 102, 132n92

Empoli, 53–54

The English Illustrated, xxxi

English tramp near Perugia, 96

Fillmore, Millard, 64

Florence, 48–49

Foligno, 104–05

Fountain Inn, 8

Frenchman in Buonconvento, 73

“From Coventry to Chester on Wheels,” xx

Furnivall, Frederick J., xxxv, 121n47

Gad’s Hill, 17, 124n16

Germantown Bicycle Club, xxiv

Gilder Richard, xxvi

Giuseppe, Dom, 83, 84

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 102

grape growers, 58

Gravesend, 13–15

gypsies, xxiii, xxvii, 119n28

Harbledown, 30

Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 121n49

high-wheel bicycles, xii, xvii–xix, xxiv

hop pickers, 10–11, 22, 30–31, 34

Howells, John M., 127n9

Howells, William Dean, xxx, xxxvi

Humber tricycle, x, xxxvi, 87, 120n37, 131n75

An Italian Pilgrimage (1887), xi–xii, xxx, xxxvi–xxxvii, 121n49, 122n51

Jackson, Joseph, x

James, Henry, x–xi

Julius II, Pope, 99, 100

Kangaroo safety bicycle, xxxix

Kron, Karl (Lyman Hotchkiss-Bagg), xiv–xv, xix, xxxii, 118n12, 120n44

Lake Thrasymene, 86, 90

Lang, Andrew, xxxii

Lastra, 51, 52

law makers, trouble with, 63, 115–16

League of American Wheelmen (LAW), xiv, xix, xxiv

leisure cycle touring

and An Italian Pilgrimage, xxxvi–xxxix

boom in interest, xv–xvi

Pennells’ contribution to, ix–x, xi–xiii, xli–xliii

and Pennells’ later books, xxxix–xl

and tricycles, xvii–xix

Leland, Charles G.

dedication to, 40

love of gypsies, xxvii, 119n28

poem in preface to An Italian Pilgrimage, xxxvii, 43–45

and start of E. Pennell’s writing career, xxii–xxiii, xxvi

writing career of, 126n1

lemons, 72, 81

Lenz, Frank, xv, 118n13

Le Vene, 105

Lupo, 78, 83

Majolica jars, 80

mandoline player, 66

Mangia, La, 65–66, 71

man in rubber sea suit, 69–70

marionette performance, 66–69, 129n44

Martial, 109, 133n102

Mead, Mr., 48

minstrels, 70

Monte Amiata, 85

Montelupo, 51–52

Monte Oliveto, 73, 74–84

Montepulciano, 86–89

Monteriggione, 60

Monte Subasio, 104

Narni, 109, 133n102

Nar River, 110

National Cyclists’ Union, 20, 125n24

Nauticus (Charles E. Reade), xiv, xxxiv, 118n12, 120n40

Niles, T., xxxvii

nuns, 52

Olas, Elena, 95

Old Kent Road, 7–8

Opie, Amelia, 122n56

ordinary, xvii

Ospringe, 27

Otricoli, 110

Our Continent, xxvi

Our Journey to the Hebrides (1889), xl, 122n52, 122n55

Our Sentimental Journey (1887), xxx, xxxix–xl

Outing, xii, xv, xxxii, 118n13, 120n40

See also The Wheelman Illustrated

Over the Alps on a Bicycle (1898), xl

Palazzo Communale, 57

pedlars, 51

Pennell, Elizabeth Robins

arrival in England, xix

collaborative relationship with Joseph, xxvi–xxvii, xxviii–xxx, 119n32

early life, xxi–xxiii, 130n61

and feminism, xl–xli, 122n58

legacy of, xli–xliii

love of gypsies, xxiii, xxvii

meets and marries Joseph, xxvi, xxvii

personality, xi

pictures, x, xxii

publishes A Canterbury Pilgrimage, xxxi–xxxii, xxxiii

quits cycling, xli, 122n59

in Rome, 134n109

sharing writing credit with Joseph, xxviii–xxx, 119n31, 119n32, 120n34, 120n42

and trip to Canterbury, xxxi

and Whistler, xi

as writer, ix–x, xii, xxii–xxiii, 119n29, 122n52

Pennell, Joseph

ability to speak Italian, 58, 59

arrival in England, xix

collaborative relationship with Elizabeth, xxvi–xxvii, xxviii–xxx, 119n32

early life, xxiv–xxvi

as illustrator, x–xi, xii–xiii, xxiv–xxvi, xxxv

legacy of, xli–xliii

love of gypsies, xxvii

meets and marries Elizabeth, xxvi, xxvii

personality, xi

pictures, x, xxv

publishes A Canterbury Pilgrimage, xxxi–xxxii

quits cycling, xli, 122n59

in Rome, 134n109

and route of Italian journey, 121n49

sharing writing credit with Elizabeth, xxviii–xxx, 119n31, 119n32, 120n34, 120n42

and trip to Canterbury, xxxi

and Whistler, xi

as writer, ix

pennyfarthing, xvii

Perugia, 97–99

Perugian priest, 83

Piccolomini Palace, 65

Pickwick Bicycle Club, xxxii

picturesque, 121n45

Pienza, 86

piper, 96, 110

Pirro, 78, 83

Pius II, Pope, 86

pizzicheria, 87

Poggibonsi, 58–59

Ponte d’Elsa, 54

Ponte Molle, 115

Ponte San Giovanni, 100

Ponte Vecchio, 46, 48

Pope, Albert, xiv

The Portfolio, xxx, xxxi

Poverina lady, 95

Quintus, 109, 133n102

Rainham, 21

Raphael, 97, 127n12

Reade, Charles Edward (Nauticus), xiv, xxxiv, 118n12, 120n40

Robins, Edward (E. Pennell’s brother), xi

Robins, Edward (E. Pennell’s father), xxi

Rochester, 17–20

Rochester Cathedral, 19–20

Rome, 115–16

Rosherville Gardens, 13, 124n13

Sachtleben, Charles, xv, 118n13

safety bicycle, xiii, xxxix, xl, 118n11

Sandrino (Italian cyclist), xxxix, 87–89, 90–92

San Giacomo, 106

San Gimignano, 56, 57, 58

San Quirico, 85

Santa Maria degli Angeli, 101, 103

Scribner’s, xxvi, xxxi–xxxii

Seeley, Richmond, xxx, xxxi, xxxvii

shepherds, 61–62, 109, 114

Siena, 63–70

Signa, 49

Signorelli, Luca, 79–80, 93

Singer cycles, xviii

Singer high-wheel bicycle, xii

Sittingbourne, 23–27

sociable tricycle, xii, 118n19

Sodoma, 79–80

Soracte, 113, 134n104

Spello, 104

Spoleto, 106

Staggia, 60

Star bicycle, xii

Starley, James, xvii

St. Benedict, 79–80

Stevens, Thomas, xv, xix, xxxix, 119n24

Stevenson, Robert Louis, xxxi, xxxii, xxxiv, 123n1, 130n64

Stockton, Frank R., 129n49

stone breakers, 61

Stour River, 33

Strood, 17

Strozzi, Prince, 96

Tabard Inn, 7

tandems

in An Italian Pilgrimage, xxxvi–xxxix

Coventry Rotary Convertible, xxx

and leisure touring, xix

pictures, x, xii

Starley side-by-side, 129n53

and tandem-hating couple, 24–27

Taylor, Bayard, 64, 128n37

Terni, 108–09

theatre, amateur, 69

To Gipsyland (1893), xxvii, xxviii, xl, 122n52, 123n60

tomb of the Volumnii, 100

town crier, 34

train to Perugia, 95–96

tramps, 11–12, 15–17, 22, 96

tricycles

and A Canterbury Pilgrimage, xxx, xxxiii–xxxiv

and An Italian Pilgrimage, xxxvi–xxxix

and class, 119n21

Humber, x, xxxvi, 87, 120n37, 131n75

and leisure touring, xvii–xix

and Our Sentimental Journey, xxxix–xl

pictures, x, xii

and racing, 118n18, 120n44

shipping from England to Italy, 47–48

sociables, xii, 118n19

See also cycling literature; leisure cycle touring

Tucker, Amy, xi

Tuscan Cities (Howells), xxxvi, 120n35

Twain, Mark, xvii–xviii

Two Pilgrims’ Progress, xxxvii, xxxviii

See also An Italian Pilgrimage

Val di Chiana, 86, 89–92, 131n78

velocipede, xiii

See also bicycles; tricycles

Via Flaminia, 113

vineyards, 58, 60

Ward, Sam, 64, 128n36

Watson, Nicola J., xxx–xxxi

Watts, Richard, 20

The Wheelman Illustrated, xv–xvi, xx, 118n12

See also Outing

Whistler, James McNeill, xi, 117n5

Whitman, Walt, xxiii

Williams, Jacqueline Block, xii

Wollstonecraft, Mary, xxiii, xli