Walking Women: a Conversation with Kerri Andrews

In her most recent book, Kerri Andrews provides intimate and incisive portraits of some of the women who have, over the past 300 years, found walking essential to their sense of themselves as women, writers and people, despite social restrictions, assumptions about what women could do, and a failure to value women’s accounts of their walking. In this conversation, followed by a live Q&A, Kerri discusses the impulses behind the book, and some of the remarkable women contained in its pages.

Kerri Andrews is a Reader in Women’s Literature and Textual Editing at Edge Hill University. She is a specialist in Romantic-era women’s writing, and is the Editor of Nan Shepherd’s letters. Kerri is also a keen hill-walker and a member of Mountaineering Scotland. Her book, Wanderers: A History of Women Walking was published by Reaktion Books in 2020.