A Girl's Ride in Iceland

A GIRL'S
RIDE IN ICELAND
MRS. ALEC TWEEDIE
( Née HARLEY).
WITH NUMEROUS ILLUSTRATIONS AND A MAP.
SECOND EDITION.
LONDON: HORACE COX, WINDSOR HOUSE, BREAM'S BUILDINGS, E.C.
1894.
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When this little volume (my maiden effort) was published five years ago, it unwittingly originated an angry controversy by raising the question Should women ride astride?
It is nearly four years since, from an hotel window in Copenhagen, I saw, to my great surprise, for the first time a woman astride a bicycle! How strange it seemed! Paris quickly followed suit, and now there is a perfect army of women bicyclists in that fair capital; after a decent show of hesitation England dropped her prejudices, and at the present minute, clad in unnecessarily masculine costume, almost without a murmur, allows her daughters to scour the country in quest of fresh air astride a bicycle.
If women may ride an iron steed thus attired, surely they might be permitted to bestride a horse in like manner clothed, and in like fashion.