“It is a walking book, but it is also a social and literary history of the North,” Stewart writes. It was a land that was alive with a terrible destructive beauty.” These engaging present-tense walks include an excellent account of recreating the walk that Mr Earnshaw took in 1771 when he travelled from Wuthering Heights to Liverpool – Stewart ventures via Littleborough and Manchester with his dog Wolfie, and has some hair-raising wild camping experiences. He captures how for Emily “the moors were a place of awe and fascination. He also follows part of the Pennine Way to the ruin of Top Withens, thought to have inspired Emily’s farmhouse location of Wuthering Heights. He begins his walks in the Brontë birthplace, Thornton, in west Yorkshire, where Patrick spent his “happiest days” before the untimely death of his wife Maria and two eldest daughters. He also voyages into the inner lives of the Brontës, showing how external place shaped their internal landscapes, how the wild fuelled their imagination. Stewart travels through the north of England, across moors and meadows, up mountains and through cities and villages and along coastal paths. Here, she becomes a posthumous guide to Michael Stewart as he follows in her footsteps – along with the footsteps of her sisters, brother Branwell and father Patrick – in a series of vividly chronicled walks that explore the geographical and emotional terrain of their writing. This trailblazing spirit led her to forge a unique path through literature. “I’ll walk where my own nature would be leading: it vexes me to choose another guide,” Emily Brontë declared. As I walk, Anne’s haunting last words to her sister Charlotte echo through my mind: “Take courage.” This evocative book encourages people to engage with the places that proved so inspirational. By the sea she so loved, it was easy to see and feel how the landscape of the north so powerfully shaped the literature and lives of the Brontës. No commercial use is permitted unless otherwise expressly granted.I walked recently through the North York Moors national park and along the Yorkshire coast, reaching Scarborough, and climbed towards its castle high on a clifftop, and to the grave of Anne Brontë, who died aged 29 and is buried in a churchyard beneath the castle. © Article author(s) (or their employer(s) unless otherwise stated in the text of the article) 2018. Health mental physical activity psychology walking. Policy and national guidelines should promote the known mental health benefits of increased walking and future research should directly address the gaps we have identified. The evidence base that suggests walking benefits mental health is growing, but remains fragmented and incomplete for some important outcomes. The setting and context of walking seems to be important variables. There were no studies for walking and resilience. Evidence for anxiety, psychological stress, psychological well-being, subjective well-being and social isolation and loneliness varied in volume and effectiveness, but no harmful effects were identified. Depression had the most evidence and existing systematic reviews were reported. Included full texts were analysed and reported according to mental health outcome.įor the 8 mental health outcomes (identified a priori), there were a total of 5 systematic reviews and 50 individual papers included. Ovid (Medline), ProQuest, Web of Science.Screening and reporting: 13 014 records were identified and screened by a team of researchers. We aimed to scope the literature and present what is known, and highlight what is not known, about walking and mental health. In contrast, while poor mental health contributes substantially to global health burden, an overview of the benefits from walking has not previously been published. Walking has well-established positive relationships with, and effects on, physical health.
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