A Wheel Within a Wheel
Author | : Frances Elizabeth Willard |
Publisher | : Applewood Books |
Total Pages | : 90 |
Release | : 1997 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781557094490 |
ISBN-13 | : 1557094497 |
Rating | : 4/5 (497 Downloads) |
Download or read book A Wheel Within a Wheel written by Frances Elizabeth Willard and published by Applewood Books. This book was released on 1997 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written toward the turn of the nineteenth century by Frances Willard, the founder of the WCTU (Women's Christian Temperance Union) and well-known suffragette, A Wheel Within a Wheel offers lively insight into the mind of an independent woman who also reflected the temper of her times. Brave enough to take up bicycle riding when she was fifty-three years old, Willard reported that her bicycling costume ""consisted of a skirt and blouse of tweed, with belt, rolling collar, and loose cravat, the skirt three inches from the ground; a round straw hat, and walking-shoes with gaiters. It was a simple, modest suit, to which no person of common sense could take exception"".