They Run with Surprising Swiftness : The Women Athletes of Early Modern Britain /
"This book traces women's competitive running and participation in team sports in Britain throughout the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries"--
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Charlottesville, VA :
University of Virginia Press,
2023.
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- In Hera's footsteps
- Women runners in Britain: the evidence
- "Of good conversation": from 1638
- Running for shifts and smocks: to 1699
- "A Prince's wine and biskets": 1700-1724
- Visitors write home: 1725-1749
- Paying the ultimate price: 1750-1774
- Exhilaration and athleticism: 1775-1799
- The power to endure: 1800-1824
- Moral meddling, cant, and sheer humbug: 1825 onward
- The runners: overview, 1638-1850
- Women tennis players, team players, fighters, and jockeys: the evidence
- The tennis players
- The team players
- Cricketers of all ages and sizes
- The fighters
- The equestrians
- Women athletes: summary.