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,) 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]
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.