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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Abramsky, Sasha, author.     Subjects     Dod, Lottie, 1871-1960.     Women tennis players -- England -- Biography.     Tennis players -- England -- Biography.     Women athletes -- England -- Biography.     Athletes -- England -- Biography.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Abramsky, Sasha, author.       by title:      Little Wonder : the ...         MARC Display

Little Wonder : the fabulous story of Lottie Dod, the world's first female sports superstar / Sasha Abramsky. by Abramsky, Sasha, author. Brooklyn, New York : Edge of Sports, [2020] Subjects Dod, Lottie, 1871-1960.   Women tennis players -- England -- Biography.   Tennis players -- England -- Biography.   Women athletes -- England -- Biography.   Athletes -- England -- Biography. ISBN:  9781617758195 (hardcover) 1617758191 (hardcover) Description:  280 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm Contents:  A family obsession -- Battle of the sexes -- Scaling the heights in Switzerland -- The grand tour on wheels -- The fastest woman on earth -- Golfing triumph and transatlantic fame -- Bull's eye at the London Olympics -- From sporting legend to wartime nurse -- Singing her way into old age -- The final days. Requests:  0 Summary:  "Lottie Dod was a truly extraordinary sports figure who blazed trails of glory in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Dod won Wimbledon five times, and did so for the first time in 1887, at the ludicrously young age of fifteen. After she grew bored with competitive tennis, she moved on to and excelled in myriad other sports: she became a leading ice skater and tobogganist, a mountaineer, an endurance bicyclist, a hockey player, a British ladies' golf champion, and an Olympic silver medalist in archery. In her time, Dod had a huge following, but her years of distinction occurred just before the rise of broadcast media. By the outset of World War I, she was largely a forgotten figure; she died alone and without fanfare in 1960. Little Wonder brings this remarkable woman's story to life, contextualizing it against a backdrop of rapid social change and tectonic shifts in the status of women in society. Dod was born into a world in which even upper-class women such as herself could not vote, were restricted in owning property, and were assumed to be fragile and delicate. Women of Lottie Dod's class were expected not to work and to definitely get married. Dod never married and never had children, instead putting heart and soul into training to be the best athlete she could possibly be. Paving the way for the likes of Billie Jean King, Serena Williams, and other top female athletes of today, Dod accepted no limits, no glass ceilings, and always refused to compromise."--Amazon.com.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Copy Status   Hawaii Kai Public Library Adult Nonfiction 796.34209 Dod Ab   Checked In Add Copy to MyList Hawaii State Library Art, Music & Recreation 796.34209 Dod Ab   Checked In Add Copy to MyList Hilo Public Library Adult Nonfiction 796.34209 Dod Ab   Checked In Add Copy to MyList Kahuku P/S Library Adult Biography B Dod Ab Women's History Display/BIOGRAPHY Checked In Add Copy to MyList Kailua-Kona Public Library Adult Nonfiction 796.34209 Dod Ab   Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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