Way makers: an anthology of women's writing about walking

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Contents

Introduction

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, 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 Weeks' 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 Weeton's Journal of a Governess (1825)

Dorothy Wordsworth, 'Thoughts on My Sick-Bed' (1832)

Charlotte Brontë to Emily Jane Brontë, 2 September 1843

Harriet Martineau, A Year at Ambleside (1845)

Emily Brontë, 'Loud Without the Wind Was Roaring', 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, 'The Trees' Counselling' (1847)

'Often Rebuked, yet Always Back Returning', from Wuthering Heights and Agnes Grey, ed. Charlotte Brontë (1850)

Harriet Martineau, A Complete Guide to the English Lakes (1855)

Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh (1856)

Charlotte Brontë, 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 Réole

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, '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

Anaïs Nin, 'The Labyrinth', from Under a Glass Bell (1944)

Flora Thompson, Heatherley (1944)

Jessie Kesson, 'Blaeberry Wood' (1945)