Unfortunately, some of them had latched on to men who dominated and confined them while toying with their affections. Their reasons for walking primarily had to do with the need to assert themselves, take pride in their physical prowess, and claim their autonomy. But they all experience the same exhilaration of simply putting one foot in front of the other and walking. Some ventured to exotic locations far from home, while others preferred to walk closer to home. Lawrence Gwen John, a Welsh artist Clara Vyvyan, an Australian author Daphne Du Maurier, an English author Nan Shepherd, a Scottish author Simone de Beauvoir, a French writer and feminist theorist and Georgia O’Keeffe, an American artist.Ībbs provides brief sketches of the lives of each of these women and conducts extensive research on their writing to determine where they walked, when they walked, why they walked, and how walking impacted their lives. Her selection of women is international: Frieda Lawrence, the German wife and muse of D.H. In Windswept: Walking the Paths of Trailblazing Women, Annabel Abbs retraces the steps of exceptional women who had a passion for walking.
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