Annie Londonderry: The Woman Who Cycled Around the World
Annie Londonderry (born Annie Cohen in Latvia in 1870) has been largely forgotten by history, but at the end of the 19th century she was widely celebrated as a trail-blazer, a modern woman who wrote: "I believe I can do anything that any man can do."She proved it by becoming the first woman to cycle around the world, ...
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Edith Garrud—The Small But Mighty Ninja Who Protected Mrs. Pankhurst
According to most sources, Edith Margaret Garrud (1872-1971) stood slightly under five foot tall in her stockinged feet. She was small but mighty.Garrud was the first woman to become an instructor in the martial arts (specifically jujitsu, which was then known as jujutsu) in the Western world. Some sources ...
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Christabel Pankhurst—The Militant Who Led Women to The Vote
History has not been kind to Christabel Pankhurst. Male historians have, by and large, accepted her sister Sylvia's account of events surrounding the Pankhursts, recorded in Sylvia's 1931 book The Suffragette Movement. Consequently, Christabel's work (and her significant influence) during a critical period for ...
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Alice Legh—The Best Archer Of Her Generation
Miss Alice Legh was very probably the finest British archer of all time (men and women both). She won the National Women's Championship in England a total of twenty-three times, between 1881 and 1922. She was sixty-seven years old when she won her last title.According to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: ...
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