The follow-up to the bestselling Wanderers, Kerri Andrews' Way Makers is the first anthology of women's writing about walking. Moving from the eighteenth century to the present day, and across poetry, letters, diaries, novels and more, this anthology traces a long tradition of women's walking literature. Walking is, for the women included in this anthology, a source of creativity and comfort; it is a means of expressing grief, longing and desire. It is also a complicated activity: it represents freedom but is also sometimes tinged with danger and fear. What cannot be denied any longer is that walking was, and continues to be, an activity full of physical and emotional significance for women: this anthology is testament to the rich literary heritage created by generations of women walker-writers over the centuries.
Edited by:
Kerri Andrews
Imprint: Reaktion Books
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 216mm,
Width: 138mm,
ISBN: 9781789147872
ISBN 10: 1789147875
Pages: 336
Publication Date: 01 November 2023
Audience:
General/trade
,
ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
INTRODUCTION by Kerri Andrews Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 1746 Frances Burney, Evelina; or, The History of a Young Lady's Entrance Into the World (1778) Ann Yearsley, 'Clifton Hill', from Selected Poems (1785) Helen Maria Williams, Letters Written in France, in the Summer 1790 (1790) Charlotte Smith, Rural Walks: In Dialogues: Intended for the Use of Young Persons (1795) Mary Wollstonecraft to William Godwin, 10 September 1796 Dorothy Wordsworth, The Alfoxden Journal (1798) Sarah Murray, Companion and Useful Guide to the Beauties of Scotland (1799) Dorothy Wordsworth, The Grasmere Journal (1800) Jane Austen to Cassandra Austen Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice (1813) Mary Shelley, History of a Six Weeks' Tour through a Part of France, Switzerland, Germany and Holland (1817) Jane Austen, Persuasion (1817) Mary Shelley, Frankenstein (1818) Dorothy Wordsworth to William Johnson, 21 October 1818 Sarah Stoddart Hazlitt, The Journal of Sarah Stoddart Hazlitt, 16 May 1822 Ellen Weeton, Miss Weeton's Journal of a Governess (1825) Dorothy Wordsworth, 'Thoughts on My Sick-Bed' (1832) Charlotte Bronte to Emily Jane Bronte, 2 September 1843 Harriet Martineau, A Year at Ambleside (1845) Emily Bronte, 'Loud Without the Wind was Roaring', from Poems, by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell (1846) Christina Rossetti, 'The Trees' Counselling' (1847) Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights (1847) Harriet Martineau to Mr H. G. Atkinson, 7 November 1847, from Autobiography 'Often Rebuked, yet Always Back Returning', from Wuthering Heights and Agnes Grey, ed. Charlotte Bronte (1850) Harriet Martineau, A Complete Guide to the English Lakes (1855) Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh (1856) Charlotte Bronte, The Professor (1857) Eliza Keary, 'Through the Wood', from Little Seal-Skin (1874) Kate Chopin, 'Beyond the Bayou' (1893) Gwen John to Ursula Tyrwhitt, 3 September 1903, La Reole Katherine Mansfield, Journal of Katherine Mansfield, Sunday, 16 May 1915 Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway (1925 Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse (1927) Virginia Woolf, Street Haunting: A London Adventure (1927) Nan Shepherd, 'Summit of Coire Etchachan', from In the Cairngorms (1934) Virginia Woolf, The Diary of Virginia Woolf, Tuesday, 2 October 1934 Frieda Lawrence, 'Not I, But the Wind . . .' (1935) Sylvia Townsend Warner, Summer Will Show (1936) Nan Shepherd to Neil Gunn, 14 May 1940 Flora Thompson, Heatherley (1944) Jessie Kesson, 'Blaeberry Wood' (1945) Jessie Kesson, 'To Nan Shepherd' (1945) Flora Thompson, Lark Rise to Candleford (1945) Janet Adam Smith, Mountain Holidays (1946) Anais Nin, 'The Labyrinth', from Under a Glass Bell (1948) C. C. Vyvyan, Down the Rhone on Foot (1955) Eleanor Farjeon, Walking with Edward Thomas (1958) Simone de Beauvoir, The Prime of Life, trans. Peter Green (1960) Nan Shepherd, The Living Mountain (1977) Jenny Nimmo, The Snow Spider (1986) Alexandra Stewart, Daughters of the Glen (1986) Muriel Gray, The First Fifty: Munro-Bagging Without A Beard (1991) Kathleen Jamie, 'At Point of Ness', from The Queen of Sheba (1994) Alice Oswald, 'Another Westminster Bridge', from Woods, etc (2005) Gwyneth Lewis, 'Imaginary Walks in Istanbul', from Sparrow Tree (2011) Cheryl Strayed, Wild: A Journey from Lost to Found (2012) Linda Cracknell, Doubling Back: Ten Paths Trodden in Memory (2014) Linda Cracknell, 'Assynt's Rare Animals?' (2015) Lauren Elkin, Flaneuse: Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice and London (2016) Melissa Harrison, Rain: Four Walks in English Weather (2016) Helen Mort, 'Kinder Scout', from No Map Could Show Them (2016) Camille T. Dungy, Guidebook to Relative Strangers: Journeys into Race, Motherhood and History (2017) Kate Davis, 'She teaches herself to walk across a limestone landscape', from The Girl Who Forgets How to Walk (2018) Katherine May, The Electricity of Every Living Thing (2018) Raynor Winn, The Salt Path (2018) Nancy Gaffield, Meridian (2019) Kathleen Jamie, Surfacing (2019) Anita Sethi, I Belong Here: A Journey Along the Backbone of Britain (2021) Sasha Dugdale, 'The Fall of the Rebel Angels', from Deformations (2020) Sarah Moss, The Fell (2021) Polly Atkin, 'Unwalking', from Much With Body (2021) Sonia Overall, Heavy Time (2021) Merryn Glover, Of Stone and Sky (2021) WORKS INCLUDED PERMISSIONS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
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 Walking, and has written for The Guardian, Trail magazine and others. She lives in Peebles, Scotland.
Reviews for Way Makers: An Anthology of Women's Writing About Walking
"""'This anthology is a start. May it not be the end, ' Andrews writes, before tracing the long literary heritage of Gwen John, Virginia Woolf, Cheryl Strayed, Camille T. Dungy and others across countries, genres and centuries.""-- ""Globe and Mail"" ""A lovely book to dip into and out of, it collects work from women who have written about walking, from the 1700s through to today. Think poetry, journals, fiction, from Mary Wollstonecraft, Virginia Woolf, Mary Shelley to Cheryl Strayed and Sarah Moss.""-- ""Toronto Star"" ""From the eighteenth century to the present day, and taking in poetry, letters, diaries, novels and more, this anthology traces the long tradition of women writing about walking. Among the many writers included are Mary Wollstonecraft, Jane Austen, Raynor Winn, Cheryl Strayed, Sarah Moss and Polly Atkin.""-- ""Bookseller"" ""Way Makers is a scintillating and exciting collection of women's voices.""--Katharine Norbury, author of ""The Fish Ladder"" ""Lays claim to being 'the first anthology of women's writing about walking.' . . . Andrews's groundbreaking Way Makers--stretching to around 300 pages with more than 70 entries spanning the centuries--is, she says, 'a small sample' of female words on walking. In its introduction she concludes: 'This anthology is a start. May it not be the end.'""-- ""Sunday Post, Scotland"""
