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LITTLE WONDER
The Fabulous Story of Lottie Dod, the World’s First Female Sports Superstar
A groundbreaking biography of the world's first female sports superstar, the pioneering and uncompromising Lottie Dod.
Little Wonder is a biography of a truly extraordinary sports figure who blazed trails of glory from the late 1800s into the early 1900s. The third woman to win the Ladies' Championships at the Wimbledon tennis tournament, she did so for the first time in 1887, at age fifteen. She remains the youngest person ever to have won a singles trophy in what would become known as the big-four Grand Slam tennis tournaments.
Dod won Wimbledon five times, grew bored with tennis, and moved on to myriad other sports: she became the world's leading female ice skater; won the British ladies' golf championship; and won an Olympic silver medal in archery.
In her time, she had a huge following, but by the outset of World War I, she was largely a forgotten figure; she died alone and without fanfare in 1960.
Little Wonder brings this remarkable woman's story to life. As a pioneer, she paved the way for the likes of Billie Jean King and Serena Williams, believing she could compete with the top men in whatever sport she set her sights on.
SASHA ABRAMSKY is a freelance journalist who has written for the Atlantic, the New Yorker, the New York Times, etc. Abramsky's The House of Twenty Thousand Books was a Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Books of 2015. Abramsky teaches writing at the University of California, Davis.
Dod won Wimbledon five times, grew bored with tennis, and moved on to myriad other sports: she became the world's leading female ice skater; won the British ladies' golf championship; and won an Olympic silver medal in archery.
In her time, she had a huge following, but by the outset of World War I, she was largely a forgotten figure; she died alone and without fanfare in 1960.
Little Wonder brings this remarkable woman's story to life. As a pioneer, she paved the way for the likes of Billie Jean King and Serena Williams, believing she could compete with the top men in whatever sport she set her sights on.
SASHA ABRAMSKY is a freelance journalist who has written for the Atlantic, the New Yorker, the New York Times, etc. Abramsky's The House of Twenty Thousand Books was a Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Books of 2015. Abramsky teaches writing at the University of California, Davis.
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Published 2020-06-02 by Akashic Books - Brooklyn (USA) |