![]() ![]() It’s been around as a genre for at most a couple of hundred years. What we think of as ‘nature writing’ is generally associated with white men. Was it hard to find the source material – have many female voices been lost where men’s had been better preserved? It has produced some charming and at times quite comical juxtapositions. For that reason this collection of women’s writing about the natural world is in alphabetical order. I therefore wanted to make a book which was easy to negotiate amd needed no effort on behalf of the reader. However, as Mum got older she developed vascular dementia which affected her working memory. It seemed that there was a real space waiting to be occupied. Grass of Parnassus was quite short on women writers, though, certainly not a 50/50 split. Wordsworth’s Daffodils and other Romantic poems she had learned by heart. As the years went by it became one of Mum’s “go to” reads. I’m sure those still living who went to school after the Second World War will remember it clearly. It was a great wedge of a book, as big as a Bible. My late mother had an anthology by her bed called The Grass of Parnassus: An Anthology of Poetry for Schools edited by W.F. What inspired you to put together this anthology? Katharine Norbury, author of a new anthology, “Women On Nature”, talks to us about finding female voices in the world of outdoor writing. ![]() Sign up to our Weekly newsletter Subscribe to our magazine for more great content ![]()
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