All three were keen walkers

In The Times, Sophia Money-Coutts writes about walking.

It’s probably fair to say that as a teenager I was overly influenced by the heroines of period dramas. Marianne Dashwood from Sense and Sensibility was my favourite because she is so dreamily romantic — so romantic that she nearly dies for love, and as a cloistered girl in a single-sex boarding school that seemed an appropriate level of drama to me. I was further impressed by the sass of Lizzy Bennet from Pride and Prejudice and Jane Eyre’s inner turmoil. Additionally, I noted with interest, all three were keen walkers.

For these women, walking seemed to be a way of dealing with feelings and thrashing out thoughts. 

The Nerd Daily asks bookish questions to writer Rebecca Morrison.

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The first book you ever remember reading: Jane Eyre