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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Annie went on to create a thriving business that quickly put both of those patrician dicks in the poorhouse, after which she hired them to clean the bicycle tires for her entire family and surrounding community.😁
EDIT: But if she lived a happy life with her family, that's all the victory most any of us want.
And if she didn't use that amazing ride to guilt those close to her into doing stuff, she was even cooler.
"Do you know what I did so that... " 🤣
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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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