Kerri Andrews

Andrews is from Worcestershire and moved to Scotland in the 2010s. She has an undergraduate degree from Loughborough University and a master's and doctorate from the University of Leeds.{{cite web |title=[Home page] |url=https://kerriandrews.co.uk/ |website=Kerri Andrews |access-date=18 May 2025}} Her thesis title was "Patronage and professionalism in the writings of Hannah More, Charlotte Smith and Ann Yearsley, 1770-1806".{{cite web |title=[Catalogue record for]: Patronage and professionalism in the writings of Hannah More, Charlotte Smith and Ann Yearsley, 1770-1806 |url=https://discover.libraryhub.jisc.ac.uk/search?q=kerri%20andrews&sort=year&rn=7 |publisher=JISC Library Hub |access-date=18 May 2025 |date=2006}}

Andrews' book Wanderers: A history of women walking was published in 2020 (Reaktion Books, {{ISBN|978-1-78914-501-4}}) and discusses ten women writers who walked, and wrote about their walking, from the 18th to the 21st centuries; it has a foreword by poet Kathleen Jamie.{{cite news |last1=Freeman |first1=Laura |title=Wandering women |url=https://thecritic.co.uk/issues/september-2020/wandering-women/ |access-date=18 May 2025 |work=The Critic Magazine |date=11 September 2020}}{{cite journal |last1=Dinter |first1=Sandra |last2=Tsai |first2=Weipin |last3=Caset |first3=Freke |title=Book Reviews |journal=Transfers |date=1 March 2021 |volume=11 |issue=1 |pages=159–165 |doi=10.3167/TRANS.2021.110111}}{{cite journal |last1=Smith |first1=Roger |title=Kerri Andrews, Wanderers: A History of Women Walking |journal=The British Journal for the History of Science |date=December 2020 |volume=53 |issue=4 |pages=602–603 |doi=10.1017/S0007087420000576|s2cid=234541695 }} The subjects of Wanderers are: Elizabeth Carter, Dorothy Wordsworth, Ellen Weeton, Sarah Stoddart Hazlitt, Harriet Martineau, Virginia Woolf, Nan Shepherd, Anaïs Nin, Cheryl Strayed and Linda Cracknell (the chapters are in this, chronological, sequence).Wanderers: Table of contents, pages [4] and [5] Andrews chose writers who "actively reflected on their pedestrianism, or who found in their walking something that contributed to their understanding of themselves as authors and as people".Wanderers: Appendix

Andrews edited the correspondence of Nan Shepherd, a pioneer woman mountain walker, which was published by Edinburgh University Press in 2023.{{cite journal |last1=Garlick |first1=Ben |title=Nan Shepherd's Correspondence, 1920–1980 ed. by Kerri Andrews (review) |journal=Scottish Literary Review |date=2024 |volume=16 |issue=2 |pages=177–180 |url=https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/243/article/945007 |access-date=18 May 2025 |issn=2050-6678}}{{cite web |title=Nan Shepherd's Correspondence, 1920-80 |url=https://booksfromscotland.com/book/nan-shepherds-correspondence-1920-80/ |website=Books from Scotland |access-date=30 October 2023}}

Her anthology Way Makers: An Anthology of Women's Writing about Walking, was published in 2023 and is the first anthology of this kind. The earliest piece is a letter from Elizabeth Carter in 1746, recording that "My general practice about six is to take up my stick and walk".{{cite book |last1=Andrews |first1=Kerri |title=Way Makers: An Anthology of Women's Writing about Walking |date=2023 |publisher=Reaktion Books |isbn=978-1-78914-819-0 |page=17 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=p_HNEAAAQBAJ&dq=way+makers+andrews&pg=PA17 |language=en |chapter=Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 1746}}{{cite web |last1=Burns |first1=Brandi |title=Review of Andrews, Kerri, ed., Way Makers: An Anthology of Women's Writing About Walking |url=https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=60984 |publisher=H-Environment, H-Review |access-date=19 May 2025 |language=en |date=March 2025}}

Her Pathfinding: On Walking, Motherhood and Freedom was published in 2025.{{cite news |last1=Spanoudi |first1=Melina |title=Elliott & Thompson acquires Kerri Andrew's book about walking and motherhood |url=https://www.thebookseller.com/rights/elliott--thompson-acquires-kerri-andrews-book-about-walking-and-motherhood |access-date=18 May 2025 |work=The Bookseller |date=23 August 2024 |language=En}} The reviewer for The Great Outdoors Magazine concluded that "If you feel like you've lost your way, amid the mountain narrative, Pathfinding may help you to place yourself once again."{{cite news |last1=Donovan |first1=Francesca |title=Book review - Pathfinding: On Walking, Motherhood and Freedom |url=https://www.thegreatoutdoorsmag.com/outdoor-book-reviews/pathfinding-on-walking-motherhood-and-freedom/ |access-date=18 May 2025 |work=TGO Magazine |date=28 January 2025 |language=en}} {{As of|May 2025}} she is working on a project about Isobel Wylie Hutchison (1889-1982), a Scottish Arctic traveller, and writing a book about the history of walking in Scotland.{{cite web |title=About Kerri Andrews |url=https://kerriandrews.co.uk/about/ |website=Kerri Andrews |access-date=18 May 2025}}

Andrews has also written for The Guardian{{cite news |last1=Andrews |first1=Kerri |title=Walking my home patch helps me to find the profound in the local |url=https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2020/nov/14/scottish-borders-scotland-walking-my-home-patch |access-date=18 May 2025 |work=The Guardian |date=14 November 2020}}{{cite news |title=In the footsteps of great female explorers |url=https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2021/mar/08/in-the-footsteps-of-great-women-explorers |access-date=18 May 2025 |work=The Guardian |date=8 March 2021}} and other publications, and has appeared on BBC Radio 4's Costing the Earth,{{cite web |title=BBC Radio 4 - Costing the Earth, The Power of Nature Writing |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001kx9g |website=BBC |access-date=18 May 2025 |date=11 April 2023}} a special edition of Woman's Hour about walking,{{cite web |title=Woman's Hour: Walking: A Woman's Hour Special |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/food/programmes/m002699c |website=BBC |access-date=18 May 2025 |language=en |date=1 January 2025}} and BBC Radio Scotland's Scotland Outdoors.{{cite web |title=Scotland Outdoors, Walking and Motherhood with Writer Kerri Andrews |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0l1pbc7 |website=BBC |publisher=BBC Radio Scotland |access-date=19 May 2025 |date=2 April 2025}}

Andrews is married and has two children. She lives in the Scottish borders, and has climbed more than 120 of the 282 Munros. She has haemochromatosis, a chronic condition which leads to an excess of iron in the body, which was only diagnosed after she had repeatedly been told that there was nothing wrong with her.{{cite news |last1=Edward |first1=Olivia |title=Review: Moving Mountains by Louise Kenward |url=https://geographical.co.uk/book-reviews/moving-mountains-louise-kenward-review |access-date=19 May 2025 |work=Geographical |date=23 January 2024}}

• {{cite book |last1=Andrews |first1=Kerri |title=Pathfinding: On Walking, Motherhood and Freedom |date=2025 |publisher=Elliott & Thompson, Limited |location=London |isbn=9781783968428 |edition=1st}}
• {{cite book |last1=Shepherd |first1=Nan|author-link=Nan Shepherd |editor1-last=Andrews |editor1-first=Kerri |title=Nan Shepherd's correspondence, 1920-1980 |date=2023 |publisher=Edinburgh University Press |location=Edinburgh |isbn=9781474487573}}
• {{cite book |editor-last1=Andrews |editor-first1=Kerri |title=Way makers: an anthology of women's writing about walking |date=2023 |publisher=Reaktion books |location=London |isbn=9781789147872}}
• {{cite book |last1=Andrews |first1=Kerri |title=Wanderers: a history of women walking |date=2020 |publisher=Reaktion Books |location=London |isbn=978-1789143423}}

• {{cite book |last1=Andrews |first1=Kerri |editor1-last=Kenward |editor1-first=Louise |title=Moving Mountains: Writing Nature through Illness and Disability |date=2023 |publisher=Footnote Press |isbn=978-1-80444-055-1 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FmS_EAAAQBAJ&dq=%22moving+mountains%22+kenward&pg=PT166 |language=en |chapter=Climbing Against Gravity: on Mountain Climbing and Genetic Haemachromatosis}}
• {{cite journal |last1=Andrews |first1=Kerri |title=Women's Walking Tours and Romantic Wilderness |journal=Wordsworth Circle |date=2021 |volume=52 |issue=3 |pages=342–357|doi=10.1086/714908 }}
• {{cite book |last1=Andrews |first1=Kerri |editor1-last=Hall |editor1-first=Jenny |editor2-last=Boocock |editor2-first=Emma |editor3-last=Avner |editor3-first=Zoe |title=Gender, Politics and Change in Mountaineering: Moving Mountains |date=2023 |publisher=Springer International Publishing AG |location=Cham |isbn=978-3-031-29944-5 |pages=15–30 |edition=1st |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nO7EEAAAQBAJ&dq=%22Gender%2C+Politics+and+Change+in+Mountaineering%22&pg=PR13 |chapter=‘That is the lady I saw ascending Snowdon, alone’: pioneering women mountaineers of the nineteenth century}}
• {{cite journal |last1=Andrews |first1=Kerri |title='"Learning the Lakes: Harriet Martineau's A Complete Guide to the English Lakes and Pedestrian Authority' |journal=Romanticism |date=1 December 2021 |volume=27 |issue=1 |pages=99–108 |doi=10.3366/rom.2021.0495 |url=https://research.edgehill.ac.uk/en/publications/learning-the-lakes-harriet-martineaus-a-complete-guide-to-the-eng |issn=1354-991X}}

• {{cite book |editor1-last=Andrews |editor1-first=Kerri |editor2-last=Edney |editor2-first=Sue |title=Hannah More in context |date=2022 |publisher=Routledge |location=New York, NY |isbn=9781003092971}}
• {{cite book |last1=Yearsley |first1=Ann|author-link=Ann Yearsley |editor-last1=Andrews |editor-first1=Kerri |editor-last2=Fulford |editor-first2=Tim |editor-last3=Keegan |editor-first3=Bridget |title=The collected works of Ann Yearsley |date=2014 |publisher=Pickering & Chatto |location=London |isbn=9781851966387}}
• {{cite book |last1=Andrews |first1=Kerri |title=Ann Yearsley and Hannah More, patronage and poetry: the story of a literary relationship |date=2013 |publisher=Pickering & Chatto |location=London |isbn=978-1848931510}}

• {{cite book |last1=Andrews |first1=Kerri |editor1-last=Andrews |editor1-first=Kerri |editor2-last=Edney |editor2-first=Sue |title=Hannah More in Context |date=2022 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-0-367-55320-3 |pages=84–99 |url=https://research.edgehill.ac.uk/en/publications/hunger-is-not-a-postponable-want-hannah-mores-charity-reconsidere |chapter='Hunger is not a postponable want': Hannah More’s charity reconsidered}}
• {{cite book |last1=Andrews |first1=Kerri |editor1-last=Goodridge |editor1-first=John |editor2-last=Keegan |editor2-first=Bridget |title=A History of British Working-Class Literature |date= 2017 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-1-107-19040-5 |pages=85–100 |url=https://research.edgehill.ac.uk/en/publications/neither-mute-nor-inglorious-ann-yearsley-and-elegy-2 |chapter=Neither Mute nor Inglorious: Ann Yearsley and Elegy}}
• {{cite journal |last1=Andrews |first1=Kerri |title=Ann Yearsley and the London newspapers in 1787 |journal=Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature |date= 2015 |volume=34 |issue=1 |pages=107–124 |url=https://research.edgehill.ac.uk/en/publications/ann-yearsley-and-the-london-newspapers-in-1787-2 |issn=0732-7730}}
• {{cite book |last1=Andrews |first1=Kerri |title=Literary Bristol |date=2015 |publisher=Redcliffe Press |isbn=978-1-908326-73-7 |pages=83–104 |url=https://research.edgehill.ac.uk/en/publications/in-her-place-ann-yearsley-or-the-bristol-milkwoman-2 |chapter=In Her Place: Ann Yearsley or 'The Bristol Milkwoman'}}

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• {{official website |https://kerriandrews.co.uk/}}
• [https://www.ukhillwalking.com/articles/features/kerri_andrews_on_wanderers_a_history_of_women_walking-13235 Kerri Andrews on Wanderers, A History of Women Walking] [interview] in UK Hillwallking, 11 January 2021

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