Biography

Penelope is known in classical mythology as the wife of hero Odysseus. She is revered for her faithfulness to him and appears in Homer's epic, "The Odyssey." She is mentioned in Fanny Adeline Seward's 1863 diary as the subject of a statue she saw at the Philadelphia Academy of Fine Arts, which is described here: https://www.pafa.org/museum/collection/item/penelope.