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Little Wonder: The Fabulous Story of Lottie Dod, the World’s First Female Sports Superstar

Sasha Abramsky

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Description:A groundbreaking biography of the world’s first female sports superstar, the pioneering and uncompromising Lottie Dod.The latest from Akashic’s Edge of Sports imprint, curated by Dave Zirin.Lottie Dod was a truly extraordinary sports figure who blazed trails of glory in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Dod won Wimbledon five times, and did so for the first time in 1887, at the ludicrously young age of fifteen. After she grew bored with competitive tennis, she moved on to and excelled in myriad other sports: she became a leading ice skater and tobogganist, a mountaineer, an endurance bicyclist, a hockey player, a British ladies’ golf champion, and an Olympic silver medalist in archery.In her time, Dod had a huge following, but her years of distinction occurred just before the rise of broadcast media. By the outset of World War I, she was largely a forgotten figure; she died alone and without fanfare in 1960.Little Wonder brings this remarkable woman’s story to life, contextualizing it against a backdrop of rapid social change and tectonic shifts in the status of women in society. Dod was born into a world in which even upper-class women such as herself could not vote, were restricted in owning property, and were assumed to be fragile and delicate.Women of Lottie Dod’s class were expected not to work and to definitely get married. Dod never married and never had children, instead putting heart and soul into training to be the best athlete she could possibly be. Paving the way for the likes of Billie Jean King, Serena Williams, and other top female athletes of today, Dod accepted no limits, no glass ceilings, and always refused to compromise.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Little Wonder: The Fabulous Story of Lottie Dod, the World’s First Female Sports Superstar. To get started finding Little Wonder: The Fabulous Story of Lottie Dod, the World’s First Female Sports Superstar, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 280

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: Edge of Sports

Release: 2020

ISBN: 1617758191

Description: A groundbreaking biography of the world’s first female sports superstar, the pioneering and uncompromising Lottie Dod.The latest from Akashic’s Edge of Sports imprint, curated by Dave Zirin.Lottie Dod was a truly extraordinary sports figure who blazed trails of glory in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Dod won Wimbledon five times, and did so for the first time in 1887, at the ludicrously young age of fifteen. After she grew bored with competitive tennis, she moved on to and excelled in myriad other sports: she became a leading ice skater and tobogganist, a mountaineer, an endurance bicyclist, a hockey player, a British ladies’ golf champion, and an Olympic silver medalist in archery.In her time, Dod had a huge following, but her years of distinction occurred just before the rise of broadcast media. By the outset of World War I, she was largely a forgotten figure; she died alone and without fanfare in 1960.Little Wonder brings this remarkable woman’s story to life, contextualizing it against a backdrop of rapid social change and tectonic shifts in the status of women in society. Dod was born into a world in which even upper-class women such as herself could not vote, were restricted in owning property, and were assumed to be fragile and delicate.Women of Lottie Dod’s class were expected not to work and to definitely get married. Dod never married and never had children, instead putting heart and soul into training to be the best athlete she could possibly be. Paving the way for the likes of Billie Jean King, Serena Williams, and other top female athletes of today, Dod accepted no limits, no glass ceilings, and always refused to compromise.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Little Wonder: The Fabulous Story of Lottie Dod, the World’s First Female Sports Superstar. To get started finding Little Wonder: The Fabulous Story of Lottie Dod, the World’s First Female Sports Superstar, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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