Bicycling in Women's History
Women on bicycles required some rethinking of female roles in common culture: the ability to get places quickly, and often alone; the need and right to be physically fit; the need for clothing that was both safe and modest.
Women and Bicycling Picture Gallery
A picture gallery depicting women on bicycles, showing the different costumes considered acceptable in the early days of women's bicycle riding.
Women and Bicycles
Women and bicycle riding, in 1894: what the fashionable bicyclist wore, and what the health experts were saying about fitness and bicycling.
The Bicycle and Health (1894)
From the April 1894 issue of The Ladies' Standard Magazine, an article on the health issues of riding bicycles - 19th century style.