They Run with Surprising Swiftness: The Women Athletes of Early Modern Britain - Peculiar Bodies - Peter Radford - Books - University of Virginia Press - 9780813947938 - May 5, 2023
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They Run with Surprising Swiftness: The Women Athletes of Early Modern Britain - Peculiar Bodies

Peter Radford

They Run with Surprising Swiftness: The Women Athletes of Early Modern Britain - Peculiar Bodies

Sports have never been the sole preserve of men; women athletes have always been there. As this book shows, throughout the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in Britain, women of all ages ran, fought, rode, played football, cricket, tennis, and other sports.


312 pages, (5)

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released May 5, 2023
ISBN13 9780813947938
Publishers University of Virginia Press
Pages 314
Dimensions 234 × 155 × 23 mm   ·   504 g

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