In Rochester, New York, in 1896, Louisa Belinda Bellflower defies convention and ignores her brother's warnings by learning to ride a bicycle. Includes a history of bicycling and its connection to the women's rights movement.
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call number/section: 1000, 608
subjects: bicycles and bicycling, fiction, sex role, brothers and sisters, family life, rochester, families, rochester (n.y.), history, 19th century, fiction