"Sarah Stoddart Hazlitt found solace in long and cathartic walks"

March 19, 2022 5:29 PM

Kerri Andrews (Lapham's Quarterly), "A Most Laborious Road": "Arriving in Edinburgh on April 21, 1822, aboard the Leith Smack Superb, Sarah Stoddart Hazlitt stepped onto the docks toward a most uncertain future. She had journeyed for seven days up the British east coast ... in order to be divorced by her husband of fourteen years ... [S]he documented both the circumstances of her divorce and the miles and miles of walking she undertook when she had the chance to steal away. On foot, she was able to enjoy something approaching freedom." Sarah Stoddart Hazlitt, "Journal of My Trip to Scotland." An annotated map of her travels [Google Earth], via The Sarah Stoddart Hazlitt Project. Interview with Kerri Andrews about Sarah Stoddart Hazlitt and other notable walkers / hikers, including Nan Shepherd whose work inspired the short documentary "The Living Mountain: A Cairngorms Journey."
posted by Wobbuffet (2 comments total)

The fourth link isn’t displaying properly on my phone, but looks like it is probably interesting.

I’ve only gotten a short way into Rebecca Solnit’s Wanderlust, but it seems like Andrews’ book would be a good companion read.
posted by eviemath at 7:14 AM on March 20, 2022 [2 favorites]

This is a wonderful collection of links! Thank you.

(...that just very slightly creeps me out because I am shortly leaving for a walking vacation in Scotland that will be followed by a stay at Hazlitt's in London. Wobbuffet, are you me?)
posted by minervous at 8:01 AM on March 20, 2022 [1 favorite]