![]() Almost no Dorothy Wordsworth or Emily Bronte, for example, but long chapters about Gwen John, Clara Vyvyan, and Nan Shepard. Voices I might expect to find were missing. First of all, her choices truly are eclectic. Several peculiarities struck me as I read Windswept, oddities that added to my enjoyment of this travelogue/memoir/literary tour. And they themselves were isolated, often trekking alone with only their imaginations for their solitary company. As her subtitle states, Abbs is “Walking the Paths of Trailblazing Women.” She has selected an eclectic group of women writers to follow, women of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries who found personal expression and literary inspiration in long walks through isolated terrain. ![]() To read Windswept, Walking the Paths of Trail Blazing Women, is to join Annabel Abbs on an intellectual, physical, and emotional journey through Great Britain, Europe, and a piece of the American West. Author Annabel Abbs walks the same paths as 19th and early 20th-century trail blazing literary women. Windswept, Walking the Paths of Trail Blazing Women. ![]()
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