Bradshaw, Penelope
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7240-9206
(2023)
In the footsteps of romantic explorers: recreating the climbs of three early Lake District adventurers.
In: Kendal Mountain Festival, 19 November 2023, The Box at Kendal Museum, UK.
(Unpublished)
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Abstract
The University of Cumbria's Dr Penny Bradshaw presents at this session of the Kendal Mountain Festival on the Gothic novelist Ann Radcliffe’s horseback ascent of Skiddaw in 1794 which resulted in what became a very famous description. Dr Bradshaw actually took on the role of Ann Radcliffe on horseback and rode as far as Latrigg, along with another Trustee who played the part of Radcliffe’s husband, and her film focuses on this. The session also includes lectures by Professor Simon Bainbridge (Lancaster University), Jeff Cowton MBE (Wordsworth Grasmere) and Dr Paul Davies (Wordsworth Grasmere), about some of the other earliest recreational Lake District ascents made in the 1790s and 1800s: the soldier and ‘rambler’ Joseph Budworth’s first ascent ‘by a stranger’ of Helm Crag, Grasmere (1792), and the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s moonlight traverse of Helvellyn and the Dodds (1800). The original exploratory climbs and their re-creations will be presented and three short films that were made to celebrate the pioneering adventurers will be shown.
| Item Type: | Conference or Workshop Item (Lecture) |
|---|---|
| Departments: | Institute of Arts > Humanities |
| Depositing User: | Anna Lupton |
| Date Deposited: | 06 May 2024 10:42 |
| Last Modified: | 06 May 2024 10:45 |
| URI: | https://insight.cumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/7668 |
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