A wheel within a wheel
Subtitle: how I learned to ride the bicycle with some reflections by the way
By: by Frances E. Willard.
Publisher: Applewood Books
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Bedford, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 75
Subjects: Willard, Frances Elizabeth, 1839-1898; Cycling for women
Other titles: Woman's quest for freedom
Description: 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."
Notes: Originally published: New York : F.H. Revell, 1895.