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A Wheel within a Wheel

How I Learned to Ride the Bicycle

With some reflections by the way.

by Frances E. Willard, 1895.

A Lack of Balance
facing page 21.

“So easy — When You Know How.”
page 36

“It's Dogged as Does It.” Yorkshire Proverb.
page 44

“Let go - But Stand By.”
page 57

“At Last.”
page 72.

Willard, Frances E. (Frances Elizabeth), 1839-1898. A Wheel Within a Wheel: How I Learned to Ride the Bicycle, With Some Reflections by the Way. Chicago: Woman's Temperance Publishing Association, 1895. -- Digitized by Google. Hathi Trust.

What a Legendary Woman's-Rights Advocate Learned from Bicycling by Whet Moser, Chicago Magazine, May 6, 2015, 3:26 PM.

Frances Willard helped give women the right to vote and was the first dean of women at Northwestern. But she didn't fully discover herself until she got on a bicycle.