The Gentlewoman's Book of Sports

By: Gayford, Cecily

It was not easy to be a sportswoman at the end of the nineteenth century. Pierre de Coubertin, founder of the modern Olympic Games, said in 1896: No matter how toughened a sportswoman may be, her organism is not cut out to sustain certain shocks. Women competed in the Olympics for the first time in 1900.

The white sailor hats and the confu- sion between you, your hat, and the ball in Lady Greville's book may now seem charmingly old-fashioned--until...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 178227247X
• ISBN13: 9781782272472
• Release Date: April 2017
• Publisher: Pushkin Press
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 4.3" x 7.0"