Women on Nature

Edited by Katharine Norbury.

This anthology gathers the voices of women across eight centuries whose subject is the natural world in Britain, Ireland and the outlying islands of our archipelago. 

Alongside the traditional forms of the travelogue, the walking guide, books on birds, plants and wildlife, Katharine Norbury has sifted through the pages of fiction, poetry, biography, gardening diaries and recipe books to demonstrate the multitudinous ways in which women have observed the world about them. 

From the fourteenth-century spiritual revelations of Julian of Norwich to a host of twenty-first century voices such as Sarah Evans, Sinead Gleeson, Kathleen Jamie, Jackie Kay, Rachel Lichtenstein, Amy Liptrot, Helen Mort and Anita Sethi, Women on Nature embraces alternative modes of seeing and recording that turn the genre on its head.

Paperback: 483 pages
Publisher: Unbound
ISBN: 9781800181410
Product Dimensions: 12.8 x 19.7 x 3.8 cm