Lady Footballers
This book tells the story of ‘the Lady Footballers’. It covers their 1895 and 1896 tours through the eyes of the largely unsympathetic British press. It explains gender issues of the time, and the financial problems that doomed this experiment.
Despite increasing opportunities in sport for British women during the late nineteenth century, virtually every segment of society opposed the idea of wome...
This book tells the story of ‘the Lady Footballers’. It covers their 1895 and 1896 tours through the eyes of the largely unsympathetic British press. It explains gender issues of the time, and the financial problems that doomed this experiment.
Despite increasing opportunities in sport for British women during the late nineteenth century, virtually every segment of society opposed the idea of wome...
