Annabel Abbs is an award-winning author and journalist. She writes regularly for a wide range of newspapers and magazines and lives in London, with her husband and four children. Her novels, The Joyce Girl and Frieda, were published to great acclaim.
Abbs's newest novel is Miss Eliza's English Kitchen: A Novel of Victorian Cookery and Friendship.
Her first foray into memoir and her first solo-authored non-fiction book is Windswept: Walking in the Footsteps of Remarkable Women.
At Electric Lit Abbs tagged eight memoirs of women hiking in the wilderness. One title on the list:
Wanderers: A History of Women Walking by Kerri AndrewsRead about the other entries on the list.
The first nonfiction book to excavate lost women walker-writers of the past and return them to the literary stage. Andrews spent over a decade researching women from as far back as the 18th-century in a scholarly bid to prove that women have always hiked in wild landscapes. From Elizabeth Carter to Dorothy Wordsworth to Cheryl Strayed, Andrews argues for a re-evaluation of the genre now known as literature of the leg.
--Marshal Zeringue
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