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IcyPeas

(21,871 posts) Fri Dec 31, 2021, 06:12 PM Dec 2021

Bicycling for Ladies, 1896

Maria E. Ward, cofounder of the Staten Island Bicycling Club, and the author of Bicycling for Ladies, 1896, in which acclaimed US photographer Alice Austen's photographs were used as references #WomensArt

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Bicycling for Ladies, 1896 (Original Post) IcyPeas Dec 2021 OP

I don't understand MAGAts, but I really don't understand the 1890s either bucolic_frolic Dec 2021 #1

This message was self-deleted by its author IcyPeas Dec 2021 #2

How fun! I found it straight away at Gutenberg.org & look forward to reading it... Hekate Jan 2022 #3

Cool! IcyPeas Jan 2022 #4

bucolic_frolic

(43,163 posts)

1. I don't understand MAGAts, but I really don't understand the 1890s either

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Fri Dec 31, 2021, 06:18 PM

Dec 2021

Despite knowing what Victorians were about, the emphasis on nature even as the women were all tied up safely in yards of clothing, despite watching 1890s House or whatever it was called, despite realizing the limits on products and technology. I would not find it oppressive, but it would put me on the looney farm.

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Hekate

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3. How fun! I found it straight away at Gutenberg.org & look forward to reading it...

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Sat Jan 1, 2022, 02:21 AM

Jan 2022

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/62227

From the same era, a couple of years ago I found The Woman and the Car, by Dorothy Levitt. These women were fearless, and never let their long skirts stop them.

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/58956

IcyPeas

(21,871 posts)

4. Cool!

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Sat Jan 1, 2022, 08:17 AM

Jan 2022

Love it! Gutsy women for their day. Riding a bike... so radical!

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