In 1894, a Boston man bet another $20K that no woman could travel around the world by bicycle.
So Annie Cohen Kopchovsky, then penniless, learned to bike & set out to prove him wrong & earn prize money.
From 1894-95, she did just that (sailing between continents). Kopchovsky kept her husband & family a secret, using the alias Londonderry. She won $10K for her accomplishment & returned to raise her family.
https://jwa.org/thisweek/jun/25/1894/annie-cohen-kopchovsky #HistoryRemix #history
First woman to cycle the globe begins journey | Jewish Women's Archive
Annie Cohen Kopchovsky, known as Annie Londonderry, began a round-the-world bicycle trip. She became the first woman to travel around the globe by bicycle.Jewish Women's Archive
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in reply to Sheril Kirshenbaum • • •Annie Londonderry's story was brilliantly rendered in "Spin", a play by Evalyn Parry, which featured a bicycle on stage as a musical instrument: https://evalynparry.com/spin/
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Evalyn Parry's SPIN - Trailer
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in reply to Sheril Kirshenbaum • • •“I think [bicycling] has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world. I stand & rejoice every time I see a woman ride by on a wheel. It gives woman a feeling of freedom & self-reliance. It makes her feel as if she were independent. The moment she takes her seat she knows she can’t get into harm unless she gets off her bicycle & away she goes, the picture of free, untrammeled womanhood.”
- Suffragist Susan B. Anthony, 1896 https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/06/obituaries/annie-londonderry-overlooked.html?unlocked_article_code=1.NU0.gAMP.GI5GiD5Z7SJR&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare #history #bike /2
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