The woman and the car
Subtitle: a chatty little handbook for all women who motor or who want to motor
By: by Dorothy Levitt ; edited with introductory articles by C. Byng-Hall ; illustrated with photographs specially taken
Contributors: Byng-Hall, C., editor
Publisher: Old House Books
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Oxford, UK
Language: eng
Number of pages: 146
ISBN-13: 9781908402875
Subjects: Women automobile drivers; History
Description: The Woman and the Car is a faithfully reproduced, quirky classic from the dawn of motoring - and quirky testament to womankind's perennial claim on the steering wheel! Take a spin through a time - 1909, to be precise - when no right-thinking lady would consider solo motoring without her revolver, and when the installation of a secret compartment for powder-puff was de rigeur. In the vintage driver's seat of this 'chatty little handbook' is record-breaking Edwardian motoriste Dorothy Levitt, exhorting the budding 'lady driver' to approach the newfangled contraption without fear and reassuring those who believed it was 'impossible to look anything but hideous when in an automobile.'
Notes: Originally published in 1909.