Lillias Campbell Davidson
Lillias Campbell Davidson | |
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Born | 1853 Brooklyn, New York |
Died | 1 March 1934 Southsea, Hampshire, England |
Nationality | American |
Occupation | writer |
Known for | advocacy for cycling and women's rights |
Lillias Campbell Davidson (1853–1934) was an American-born British writer. She founded the Lady Cyclists' Association. In 2018, the New York Times published a belated obituary for her.[1]
Life[]
According to Elizabeth Robins Pennell, another American cyclist in London at the same time, Davidson was employed by and the Cyclists' Touring Club Gazette.[2]
She lived for a time with Alice Werner, a teacher of Bantu, and Ménie Muriel Dowie, a British writer of the New Woman school. According to the New York Times:
The writer Ethel F. Heddle novelized their experience in her 1896 book, “Three Girls in a Flat,” in which she described the ambivalent experience when the freedom of living alone collides with “the sordid, matter-of-fact worries incident on having very little money.”[3]
Works[]
Non-fiction[]
- Hints to Lady Travellers at Home and Abroad, Iliffe & Son: London, 1889. OCLC 559333779; London: Elliott and Thompson, 2011. ISBN 9781904027911, OCLC 712779100[4]
- Handbook for Lady Cyclists, Hay Nisbett & Co, c.1896
- Catherine of Bragança : Infanta of Portugal and Queen-Consort of England, J Murray, 1908; (Classic Reprint), Forgotten Books, 2016 ISBN 1333381026
Fiction[]
- Houses of Clay, S W Partridge, 19-- OCLC 221860707
- Second Lieutenant Celia, Bliss Sands, 1898
- For Lack of Love, Horace Marshall & Son, 1900
- The Theft of a Heart, C Arthur Pearson, 1902
- The Confessions of a Matchmaking Mother, J F Taylor, 1902. ISBN 9781166235338
- Purple and Fine Linen, Ward, Lock & Co, 1916
- A Girl's Battle ... With six illustrations. London, 1933. OCLC 559333726
Serialised[]
- The Twentieth of June, 1887[5]
- The Young Man from Chicago, 1900[6]
- Thief and Heiress, 1911[7]
- The Touchstone, 1912[8]
- The Marriage Trap: The Story of a Woman's Sin and a Young Man's Folly, 1912[9]
Footnotes[]
- ^ "Lillias Campbell Davidson, Who Founded the First Women's Cycling Organization". The New York Times. 2018-03-08. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2018-03-08.
- ^ Robins Pennell, Elizabeth (1894). Ladies in the Field: Sketches of Sport. London: Ward & Downey. p. 264.
- ^ "Overlooked No More: Lillias Campbell Davidson, Who Founded the First Women's Cycling Organization". Retrieved 14 June 2018.
- ^ Prospero (9 June 2011). "Hints to lady travellers". Economist.
- ^ Davidson, Lillias Campbell. "The Twentieth of June". Trove, National Library of Australia. Retrieved 15 March 2018.
- ^ Davidson, Lillias Campbell. "The Young Man from Chicago". Trove, National Library of Australia. Retrieved 15 March 2018.
- ^ Davidson, Lillias Campbell. "Thief and Heiress". Trove, National Library of Australia. Retrieved 15 March 2018.
- ^ Davidson, Lillias Campbell. "The Touchstone". Trove, National Library of Australia. Retrieved 15 March 2018.
- ^ Davidson, Lillias Campbell. "The Marriage Trap". Trove, National Library of Australia. Retrieved 15 March 2018.
Further reading[]
- Julie Wosk, Women and the Machine: Representations From the Spinning Wheel to the Electronic Age (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001, 2003). See chapter "Women and the Bicycle".
- Amanda Hess, "Lillias Campbell Davidson, Who Founded the First Women’s Cycling Organization," New York Times, March 8, 2018.
- British non-fiction writers
- British women non-fiction writers
- British female cyclists
- American expatriates in England
- 1853 births
- 1934 deaths