# bicycling women emancipate

“What I think of I think it has done more to emancipate than any one thing in the world.

"It gives her a feeling of self-reliance and independence the moment she takes her seat; and away she goes, the picture of untrammeled womanhood.”
— Susan B. Anthony, 1896

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“What I think of I think it has done more to women than any one thing in the world.

"It gives her a feeling of self-reliance and independence the moment she takes her seat; and away she goes, the picture of untrammeled womanhood.”
— Susan B. Anthony, 1896

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1898 was the year in which Principal Miss Beale acquired a tricycle, now in the College Archive. She had initially opposed the newly-fashionable sport of bicycling, but, as always, was not ashamed to change her mind, and was soon cycling down Bayshill Rd every morning at 7am.

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