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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Maria E. WardPublisher: Apollo Publishers Imprint: Apollo Publishers ISBN: 9781948062527ISBN 10: 1948062526 Pages: 320 Publication Date: 06 May 2021 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Temporarily unavailable  The supplier advises that this item is temporarily unavailable. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out to you. Table of ContentsPreface Foreword by Victoria Munro, Executive Director, Alice Austen House Foreword by Maxine Friedman, Chief Curator, Historic Richmond Town Preface by Maria Ward 1. Possibilities 2. What the Bicycle Does 3. On Wheels in General and Bicycles in Particular 4. For Beginners 5. How to Make Progress 6. Helping and Teaching; What to Learn 7. A Few Things to Remember 8. The Art of Wheeling a Bicycle 9. Position and Power 10. Difficulties to Overcome 11. Dress 12. Watch and Cyclometer 13. Women and Tools 14. Tools and How to Use Them 15. Solving a Problem 16. Where to Keep a Bicycle 17. Tires 18. Mechanics of Bicycling 19. Adjustment 20. Exercise 21. Training 22. Breathlessness; The Limit MechanicalReviewsBicycling by young women has helped more than any other medium to swell the ranks of reckless girls, who finally drift into the army of outcast women of the United States. --Women's Rescue League I think the most vicious thing I ever saw in all my life is a woman on a bicycle-and Washington is full of them. I had thought that cigarette smoking was the worst thing a woman could do, but I have changed my mind. --The Sunday Herald, 1861 Over-exertion, the upright position on the wheel, and the unconscious effort to maintain one's balance tend to produce a wearied and exhausted 'bicycle face.' --The Literary Digest, 1895 Have you ever seen anything more off-putting, uglier, meaner than a wench on a bike, wheezing, her face red like a turkey, her eyes reddened by the dust? What a horror! --Youth, 1897 Don't cultivate a bicycle face. --New York World, 1895 Female bicycling must be sharply looked after and care exercised in its indulgence... bicycling is a leading factor in disturbances of nutrition, in neurasthenia, hysteria, chlorosis, dyspepsia, chronic constipation, anemic amenorrhoea, and nervous dysmenorrhoea. --The Medical Age, 1897 It is a fact that so called bicycle schools do tend to foster immorality to individual members of the sex. --The Medical Age, 1897 “Bicycling by young women has helped more than any other medium to swell the ranks of reckless girls, who finally drift into the army of outcast women of the United States.” —Women's Rescue League, 1891 “I think the most vicious thing I ever saw in all my life is a woman on a bicycle-and Washington is full of them. I had thought that cigarette smoking was the worst thing a woman could do, but I have changed my mind.” —The Sunday Herald, 1891 “Over-exertion, the upright position on the wheel, and the unconscious effort to maintain one's balance tend to produce a wearied and exhausted 'bicycle face.'” —The Literary Digest, 1895 “Have you ever seen anything more off-putting, uglier, meaner than a wench on a bike, wheezing, her face red like a turkey, her eyes reddened by the dust? What a horror!” —Youth, 1897 “Don’t cultivate a bicycle face.” —New York World, 1895 “Female bicycling must be sharply looked after and care exercised in its indulgence... bicycling is a leading factor in disturbances of nutrition, in neurasthenia, hysteria, chlorosis, dyspepsia, chronic constipation, anemic amenorrhoea, and nervous dysmenorrhoea.” —The Medical Age, November, 1897 “It is a fact that so called bicycle schools do tend to foster immorality to individual members of the sex.” —The Medical Age, January, 1897 Author InformationMaria E. Ward, known by her nickname Violet, was an avid bicyclist, the cofounder of the Staten Island Bicycling Club, and the author ofBicycling for Ladies. Ward was born in Manhattan, New York, the daughter of General William Greene Ward and Emily Graham Ward, and later lived in Staten Island with her parents and sister. She cofounded the Staten Island Bicycle Club with her friend, the acclaimed photographer Alice Austen, in 1895, and Austen's photographs were used as references for the illustrations inBicycling for Ladies, originally published by Brentano's in 1896. Ward has been widely celebrated for her contribution to the bicycling world in a wealth of media, including theNew York Timesarticle ""Bicycle Diaries: Two Centuries of New York City"" theBustmagazine article ""First The Bicycle, Next The Vote: The Story Of Bicycles,"" the bookMothers and Daughters of Invention, andMomentum Mag, which called her one of the three women""who changed the course of history on bicycles.""Ward lived in New York, and died in 1941 at the age of seventy-eight. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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