Harriet Martineau, an accomplished Victorian writer and avid walker, published her Complete Guide to the English Lakes as a competitor to the late William Wordsworth’s guidebook in 1855. Although she strove to distinguish this new work from Wordsworth’s, Martineau used a “Letter from William Wordsworth” to describe the ascent of Scawfell Pike, explaining that no else hadContinue reading “Harriet Martineau, A Complete Guide to the English Lakes, 1855”