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About This Book
A sweeping collection of women's writing on the wandering path, moving across genres, geographies, and centuries.
The follow-up to the celebrated Wanderers, Kerri Andrews's Way Makers is the first anthology of women's writing about walking. Moving from Elizabeth Carter's correspondence with Catherine Talbot in the eighteenth century through to Merryn Glover in 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 a testament to the rich literary heritage created by generations of women walker-writers over the centuries.
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Table of contents
- Front Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Dedication
- INTRODUCTION
- Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 1746
- Frances Burney, Evelina; or, The History of a Young Ladyâs Entrance into the World (1778)
- Ann Yearsley, âClifton Hillâ, 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, A Companion and Useful Guide to the Beauties of Scotland (1799)
- Dorothy Wordsworth, The Grasmere Journal (1800)
- Jane Austen to Cassandra Austen, May 1801
- Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice (1813)
- Mary Shelley, History of a Six Weeksâ Tour through a Part of France, Switzerland, Germany and Holland (1817)
- Jane Austen, Persuasion (1818)
- Mary Shelley, Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus (1818)
- Dorothy Wordsworth to William Johnson, 21 October 1818
- Sarah Stoddart Hazlitt, The Journal of Sarah Stoddart Hazlitt, 16 May 1822
- Ellen Weeton, Miss Weetonâs Journal of a Governess (1825)
- Dorothy Wordsworth, âThoughts on My Sick-Bedâ (1832)
- Charlotte Brontë to Emily Jane Brontë, 2 September 1843
- Harriet Martineau, A Year at Ambleside (1845)
- Emily BrontĂ«, âLoud Without the Wind Was Roaringâ, from Poems, by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell (1846)
- Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights (1847)
- Harriet Martineau to Mr H. G. Atkinson, 7 November 1847, from Autobiography
- Christina Rossetti, âThe Treesâ Counsellingâ (1847)
- âOften Rebuked, yet Always Back Returningâ, from Wuthering Heights and Agnes Grey, ed. Charlotte BrontĂ« (1850)
- Harriet Martineau, A Complete Guide to the English Lakes (1855)
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh (1856)
- Charlotte Brontë, The Professor (1857)
- Eliza Keary, âThrough the Woodâ, from Little Seal-Skin (1874)
- Kate Chopin, âBeyond the Bayouâ (1893)
- Gwen John to Ursula Tyrwhitt, 3 September 1903, La RĂ©ole
- Katherine Mansfield, Journal of Katherine Mansfield, Sunday, 16 May 1915
- Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway (1925)
- Virginia Woolf, Street Haunting: A London Adventure (1927)
- Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse (1927)
- Dorothy L. Sayers, Have His Carcase (1932)
- Nan Shepherd, âSummit of Coire Etchachanâ, 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
- AnaĂŻs Nin, âThe Labyrinthâ, from Under a Glass Bell (1944)
- Flora Thompson, Heatherley (1944)
- Jessie Kesson, âBlaeberry Woodâ (1945)
- Jessie Kesson, âTo Nan Shepherdâ (1945)
- Flora Thompson, Lark Rise to Candleford (1945)
- Janet Adam Smith, Mountain Holidays (1946)
- C. C. Vyvyan, Down the Rhone on Foot (1955)
- Eleanor Farjeon, Walking with Edward Thomas: The Last Four Years (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, âAt Point of Nessâ, from The Queen of Sheba (1994)
- Alice Oswald, âAnother Westminster Bridgeâ, from Woods, etc. (2005)
- Gwyneth Lewis, âImaginary Walks in Istanbulâ, 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, âAssyntâs Rare Animals?â (2015)
- Lauren Elkin, FlĂąneuse: Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice and London (2016)
- Melissa Harrison, Rain: Four Walks in English Weather (2016)
- Helen Mort, âKinder Scoutâ, from No Map Could Show Them (2016)
- Camille T. Dungy, Guidebook to Relative Strangers: Journeys into Race, Motherhood and History (2017)
- Kate Davis, âShe teaches herself to walk across a limestone landscapeâ, from The Girl Who Forgets How to Walk (2018)
- Katherine May, The Electricity of Every Living Thing: A Womanâs Walk in the Wild to Find Her Way Home (2018)
- Raynor Winn, The Salt Path (2018)
- Nancy Gaffield, Meridian (2019)
- Kathleen Jamie, Surfacing (2019)
- Sasha Dugdale, âThe Fall of the Rebel Angelsâ, from Deformations (2020)
- Anita Sethi, I Belong Here: A Journey Along the Backbone of Britain (2021)
- Polly Atkin, âUnwalkingâ, from Much With Body (2021)
- Merryn Glover, Of Stone and Sky (2021)
- Sarah Moss, The Fell (2021)
- Sonia Overall, Heavy Time (2021)
- WORKS INCLUDED
- PERMISSIONS
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- INDEX