{"product_id":"little-wonder-the-fabulous-story-of-lottie-dod-the-worlds-first-female-sports-superstar","title":"Little Wonder: The Fabulous Story of Lottie Dod, the World's First Female Sports Superstar","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA groundbreaking biography of the world's first female sports superstar, the pioneering and uncompromising Lottie Dod\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEighty-five years before Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs fought the 'battle of the sexes, ' a Victorian teenager showed what women could do . . .  Abramsky] celebrates her as a brave and talented and determined original. In sports, the battle of the sexes is far from over, but Dod won more than a few break points simply by living her own life to the fullest.\u003cbr\u003e--\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAbramsky's reclamation of  Dod's] story is a welcome addition that reminds us that women have long struggled for an equitable place in sports and that women athletes do have predecessors to look toward for encouragement in their contemporary fights for pay equity, TV coverage and respect.\u003cbr\u003e--\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMs. Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBefore Serena Williams and Megan Rapinoe, there was Lottie Dod...Abramsky presents a well-researched account of a woman whose rare losses were almost more newsworthy than her consistent victories.\u003cbr\u003e--\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eChristian Science Monitor\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn adroitly written biography...Abramsky offers a fascinating portrait of the life of this forgotten sports heroine in fluid prose. \u003ci\u003eLittle Wonder\u003c\/i\u003e is a worthy addition to the sports literature.\u003cbr\u003e--\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Journal of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAbramsky...masterfully captures the life of this little-known sportswoman, a versatile female athlete comparable to Babe Didrikson Zaharias. In an eloquently written narrative, spiced with vivid descriptions of the Victorian era and the early twentieth century, he shines a light on Dod...This fine biography makes a significant contribution to sports history and women's studies and should go a long way to bringing Dod's inspirational story to a new audience.\u003cbr\u003e--\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e, Starred review\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAbramsky combines descriptive writing with research that pulls back the curtain to reveal an athlete whose feats remain stunning 60 years after her death and more than a century after her glory days.\u003cbr\u003e--\u003cb\u003eNew Books in History\u003c\/b\u003e (podcast)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLottie Dod was a truly extraordinary sports figure who blazed trails of glory in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Dod won Wimbledon five times, and did so for the first time in 1887, at the ludicrously young age of fifteen. After she grew bored with competitive tennis, she moved on to and excelled in myriad other sports: she became a leading ice skater and tobogganist, a mountaineer, an endurance bicyclist, a hockey player, a British l\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Edge of Sports","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39328642007140,"sku":"9781617758195","price":22.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/suomalainen-test.myshopify.com\/products\/little-wonder-the-fabulous-story-of-lottie-dod-the-worlds-first-female-sports-superstar","provider":"Suomalainen Test","version":"1.0","type":"link"}