A wheel within a wheel

Written toward the turn of the nineteenth century by Frances Willard, the founder of the WCTU (Women's Christian Temperance Union) and well-known suffragette, A Wheel Within a Wheel offers lively insight into the mind of an independent woman who also reflected the temper of her times. Brave enough to take up bicycle riding when she was fifty-three years old, Willard reported that her bicycling costume "consisted of a skirt and blouse of tweed, with belt, rolling collar, and loose cravat, the skirt three inches from the ground; a round straw hat, and walking-shoes with gaiters. It was a simple, modest suit, to which no person of common sense could take exception."

First sentence: FROM my earliest recollections, and up to the ripe age of fifty-three, I had been an active and diligent worker in the world.

Year

1895

Language

English

Publisher

Reprint Services Corp

Editions

1

ISBN

9780781299794

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