Dr Samantha Walton is a researcher based at Bath Spa University. Her AHRC-funded project, Cultures of Nature and Wellbeing, explores how literature represents the effect nature has on mood, emotion, and the imagination.
Nature, wellbeing and literature have always been connected for me. My childhood memories of discovering the natural world are entangled with the fictional worlds that I was also exploring: the landscapes of Wind in the Willows, The Famous Five and
