Kerri Andrews

British literary scholar

Kerri Andrews is a British literary scholar and reader in women's literature and textual editing at Edge Hill University.^[1]

Her book Wanderings: A history of women walking was published in 2020 (Reaktion Books, ISBN 978-1-78914-501-4) and discusses ten women writers who walked, and wrote about their walking, from the 18th to the 21st centuries.^[2]^[3] She edited the anthology Way Makers: An Anthology of Women's Writing about Walking, published in 2023, and the earlier Nan Shepherd's Correspondence, 1920-80 (Edinburgh UP).^[4]

The subjects of Wanderers are: Elizabeth Carter, Dorothy Wordsworth, Ellen Weeton, Sarah Stoddart Hazlitt, Harriet Martineau, Virginia Woolf, Nan Shepherd, Anaïs Nin, Cheryl Strayed and Linda Cracknell (the chapters are in this, chronological, sequence).^[5] She chose writers who "actively reflected on their pedestrianism, or who found in their walking something that contributed to their understanding of themselves as authors and as people".^[6]

As of October 2023^[update] she was working on a book about walking and motherhood, and is also editing the correspondence of Isobel Wylie Hutchison (1889-1982), a Scottish Arctic traveller.^[4]

References

^ "Dr Kerri Andrews". Edge Hill University. Retrieved 29 October 2023.
^ Dinter, Sandra; Tsai, Weipin; Caset, Freke (1 March 2021). "Book Reviews". Transfers. 11 (1): 159–165. doi:10.3167/TRANS.2021.110111.
^ Smith, Roger (December 2020). "Kerri Andrews, Wanderers: A History of Women Walking. London: Reaktion Books, 2020. Pp. 303. ISBN 978-1-7891-4342-3. £14.99 (hardback)". The British Journal for the History of Science. 53 (4): 602–603. doi:10.1017/S0007087420000576. S2CID 234541695.
^ ^a ^b "Nan Shepherd's Correspondence, 1920-80". Books from Scotland. Retrieved 30 October 2023.
^ Wanderers: Table of contents, pages [4] and [5]
^ Wanderers: Appendix, pages