'And on one toils, into the hill': Working and walking in Nan Shepherd's North East

Sarah Janet Helen Leith

'And on one toils, into the hill': Working and walking in Nan Shepherd's North East

Sarah Janet Helen Leith^*

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This article considers the duality of working and walking in Nan Shepherd’s writings about the North East of Scotland. Exploring Shepherd’s works from the perspectives of social and intellectual history, it considers the ways in which she represented both working and walking as labour during the first half of Scotland’s twentieth century.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	24-36
Journal	Studies in Scottish Literature
Volume	50
Issue number	1
Publication status	Published - 19 Oct 2025

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'And on one toils, into the hill': Working and walking in Nan Shepherd's North East

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