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A review by emilybh
Wanderers: A History of Women Walking by Kerri Andrews, Kathleen Jamie
5.0
'My life is now (in this season) one of wild roving, after my years of helpless sickness. I ride like a Borderer, - walk like a pedlar, - climb like a Mountaineer...' (Harriet Martineau)
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I really enjoyed this account of women and walking. It included people I'd heard of - Virginia Woolf, Dorothy Wordsworth - and several I hadn't - Elizabeth Carter, Ellen Weeton. The women Andrews writes about walked in different places - the Cairngorms, the Lake District, London streets - and with different identities, from their class to their health, family ties or independence. They covered miles and miles, and found different types of freedom.
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I really enjoyed this account of women and walking. It included people I'd heard of - Virginia Woolf, Dorothy Wordsworth - and several I hadn't - Elizabeth Carter, Ellen Weeton. The women Andrews writes about walked in different places - the Cairngorms, the Lake District, London streets - and with different identities, from their class to their health, family ties or independence. They covered miles and miles, and found different types of freedom.