Wanderers
A History of Women Walking
Published on 14. September 2020
304 pages
978-1-78914-343-0 (ISBN)
Description
This is a book about ten women over the past three hundred years who have found walking essential to their sense of themselves, as people and as writers.
Wanderers traces their footsteps, from eighteenth-century parson's daughter Elizabeth Carter - who desired nothing more than to be taken for a vagabond in the wilds of southern England - to modern walker-writers such as Nan Shepherd and Cheryl Strayed. For each, walking was integral, whether it was rambling for miles across the Highlands, like Sarah Stoddart Hazlitt, or pacing novels into being, as Virginia Woolf did around Bloomsbury.
Offering a beguiling view of the history of walking, Wanderers guides us through the different ways of seeing - of being - articulated by these ten pathfinding women.
Wanderers traces their footsteps, from eighteenth-century parson's daughter Elizabeth Carter - who desired nothing more than to be taken for a vagabond in the wilds of southern England - to modern walker-writers such as Nan Shepherd and Cheryl Strayed. For each, walking was integral, whether it was rambling for miles across the Highlands, like Sarah Stoddart Hazlitt, or pacing novels into being, as Virginia Woolf did around Bloomsbury.
Offering a beguiling view of the history of walking, Wanderers guides us through the different ways of seeing - of being - articulated by these ten pathfinding women.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
File size
0,63 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-78914-343-0 (9781789143430)
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Person
Kerri Andrews is Reader in Women's Literature and Textual Editing at Edge Hill University. She is the author of Wanderers: A History of Women's Walking, and has written for the Guardian, Trail magazine and others. She lives in Peebles, UK.
Content
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Foreword
- Setting Off
- 1. Elizabeth Carter
- 2. Dorothy Wordsworth
- 3. Ellen Weeton
- 4. Sarah Stoddart Hazlitt
- 5. Harriet Martineau
- 6. Virginia Woolf
- 7. Nan Shepherd
- 8. Anaïs Nin
- 9. Cheryl Strayed
- 10. Linda Cracknell and a Female Tradition
- Coda
- Appendix
- References
- Further Reading
- Acknowledgements
- Index
