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In the foreword to the 1923 edition of The Heavenly Twins, first published in 1893, Sarah Grand wrote:
A man might keep a baby-linen shop if it paid — anything that paid was ‘masculine’ — but a woman could not drive a pair of horses for profit, however good a whip she was, without the odium of being ‘unsexed’.1
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Quoted by Gillian Kersley, Darling Madame ( London: Virago, 1983 ), 67.
See Gail Cunningham, ‘Seizing the Reins: Women Girls and Horses’ in Sarah Sceats and Gail Cunningham, eds, Image and Power: Women in Fiction in the Twentieth Century ( Harlow: Longman, 1996 ).
See Alex Potts, ‘Natural Order and the Call of the Wild: the Politics of Animal Painting’, Oxford Art Journal, 13, 1990, 13–33.
See Anne Grimshaw, The Horse: a Bibliography of British Books 1851–1976 ( London: Library Association, 1982 ), 72–4.
Francis Willard, A Wheel within a Wheel ( London: Hutchinson, 1895 ), 11.
Mrs Edward Kennard, A Crack County ( London: F. V. White, 1889 ), 220.
See Sarah Wintle, ‘The Sheikh: What can be made of a Daydream’, Women: a Cultural Review 7, 1996.
Mrs Edward Kennard, The Golf Lunatic and his Cycling Wife ( London: Hutchinson, 1902 ), 1.
See John Sutherland The Longman Companion to Victorian Fiction (London: Longman, 1988), 348–9.
Mrs Edward Kennard, The Motor Maniac ( London: Hutchinson, 1902 ) 9.
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Wintle, S. (2002). Horses, Bikes and Automobiles: New Woman on the Move. In: Richardson, A., Willis, C. (eds) The New Woman in Fiction and in Fact. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-65603-5_4
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