Wanderers
A History of Women Walking
Seiten
2021
Reaktion Books (Verlag)
978-1-78914-501-4 (ISBN)
Reaktion Books (Verlag)
978-1-78914-501-4 (ISBN)
A beguiling history of ten pathfinding women walkers.
Now in paperback, this book describes 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.
Now in paperback, this book describes 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.
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.
Setting Off
Chapter 1: Elizabeth Carter
Chapter 2: Dorothy Wordsworth
Chapter 3: Ellen Weeton
Chapter 4: Sarah Stoddart Hazlitt
Chapter 5: Harriet Martineau
Chapter 6: Virginia Woolf
Chapter 7: Nan Shepherd
Chapter 8: Anaïs Nin
Chapter 9: Cheryl Strayed
Chapter 10: Linda Cracknell and a Female Tradition
Coda
Appendix
References
Further Reading
Acknowledgements
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 11.08.2021 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 129 x 198 mm |
| Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-78914-501-5 / 1789145015 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-78914-501-4 / 9781789145014 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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