by
Lady Greville, Lady Colin Campbell, Miss A.D. Mackenzie
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
It was not easy to be a sportswoman at the end of the nineteenth century. Pierre de Coubertin, founder of the modern Olympic Games, said in 1896: "No matter how toughened a sportswoman may be, her organism is not cut out to sustain certain shocks." Women competed in the Olympics for the...