A History of Women Walking

By Kerri Andrews

Favorite quote: Virginia Woolf - As the season changed from summer to autumn, the raids on local mushroom troves were replaced by earnest blackberrying. (…). Though life did not always allow it, Woolf made for herself wherever she could an existence rooted in these daily wanderings on foot. for Woolf, walking was where she found companionship, happiness and inspiration.”

From the publisher: 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.

Dimensions: 5 × 7.75 inches

303 pages, Softcover