Book hunting

[Serra K]

Has anybody read this book from1896?

 

[Hannah F]

Never heard of it. Tell us more.

 

[Serra K]

[Within a century, the bicycle would come to be regarded as “the vehicle of novelists and poets.”]

Here's a link to an article about it I'll be hunting this treasure down

Bicycling for Ladies: An Illustrated 1896 Manifesto for the Universal Splendors of the Bicycle as an Instrument of Self-Reliance, a Training Machine for Living with Uncertainty, and a Portal to Joy

“You are at all times independent. This absolute freedom of the cyclist can be known only to the initiated.”

www.themarginalian.org

 

[Pamela Jo]

I like to watch the UK reality series where modern families move into old houses and live the past. I remember one form about 2001 where the SIL who was single had a wretched life in 1900 until she got a bicycle. Then she was a spinster on wheels.

 

[Pamela Jo]

This illustration is so much like a pamphlet book I found in my grandmother's things. She was a one-room schoolteacher who graduated the local HS in 1912. Such a Gibson Girl. her booklet is entitled an adventure book for girls. On the cover they are canoing.