Wanderers

A History of Women Walking

Kerri Andrews, Kathleen Jamie

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Reaktion Books
01 November 2020

Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers; History; Gender studies: women; Walking, hiking, trekking; Travel & holiday

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.

By: Kerri Andrews
Foreword by: Kathleen Jamie
Imprint: Reaktion Books
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 210mm, Width: 133mm,
ISBN: 9781789143423
ISBN 10: 178914342X
Pages: 288
Publication Date: 01 November 2020
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Kerri Andrews is a senior lecturer in English literature at Edge Hill University. She has published widely on women's writing, especially Romantic-era authors, and is a keen hill-walker and member of Mountaineering Scotland.

Reviews for Wanderers: A History of Women Walking

Wanderers discovers a history of women walkers which spans three hundred years. . . . [Andrews's] company is just as intelligent and lively as the women she 'companions' along the way. Heaven knows how many miles are covered--an astonishing number. But miles don't really matter. What matters is that all women who can, should feel encouraged to get out there and claim our birthright. We should all be able to enjoy our walking free from fear, in what is, after all, our world too. Thanks to this book, we know that even in solitude we never walk alone. A fine female tradition is at our backs, encouraging us along. --Kathleen Jamie, author of Surfacing, Sightlines, and Findings from the foreword