Cricket Witness No 4 - Women at the WIcket

123 5 Dove, Work and Play , 396-420; Mandy Teagus, ‘Playing like Ladies: Basketball, Netball and Feminine Restraint’, International Journal of the History of Sport 22:1 (2005), 88-105. 6 Quoted in Hargreaves, Sporting Females , 77-8; Dove, Work and Play , 398. 7 Sunday Dispatch (18 June 1933); Kenealy, Feminism and Sex-extinction , 128; Women’s Cricket (August, 1931), 65-8; Bedford College Union Magazine (June 1938), 33. 8 I have adopted this phrase and theory from Caitriona Beaumont, Housewives and Citizens , 40-2. 9 Beddoe, Back to Home ; Martin Pugh, Women and the Women’s Movement in Britain, 1914-1959 (Basingstoke, 1992); Susan Kingsley Kent, Making Peace: The Reconstruction of Gender in Interwar Britain (Princeton, 1993). Recent work see Adrian Bingham, Gender, Modernity and the Popular Press in Interwar Britain (Oxford, 2004); Søland, Becoming Modern ; Selina Todd, Young Women, Work and Family in England 1918-1950 (Oxford, 2005); Langhamer, Women’s Leisure in England ; Skillen, Women, Sport and Modernity. 10 Beaumont, Housewives and Citizens , 41-62. 11 Bateman, Cricket, Literature and Culture , 39-42; Birley, Playing the Game , 25, 188-9; Williams, Cricket and England , 24. 12 The Cricketer Annual (1923), 24, 41; The Cricketer Spring Annual (1929), 23. 13 The Cricketer (July 1922), 13. 14 Reynolds’s News (24 May 1931). 15 Harefield Boomerang (December 1918), 201; Yorkshire Observer (25 August 1932); (19 May 1933); Women’s Cricket (August 1938), 74. 16 Folkestone, Hythe, Sandgate and Cheriton Herald (9 October 1936); Yorkshire Evening Post (19 June 1931); Threlfall-Sykes, ‘History of Women’s Cricket’, 60, 256-7, 353-5. 17 WCA, Report 1931, 1-2; Pollard, Cricket for Women and Girls , 130; Girl’s Own Paper 60 (1939), 459. 18 The Observer (26 May 1935), 31; (2 August 1937), 21; Pollard, Fifty Years of Women’s Hockey , 21. 19 History of Tonbridge Grammar School , 16-18; Ourselves (February 1931), 5; Yorkshire Observer (25 June 1934). 20 International Federation of Women’s Hockey Associations, Report of the Third Triennial Conference (Philadelphia, 1936), 3; Women’s Cricket (May 1939), 14. 21 Daily News Chronicle (13 July 1934). 22 Zweiniger-Bargielowska, Managing the Body , 238-45, 309-25; Kenealy, Feminism and Sex-extinction , 69. 23 Cadbury, Experiments in Industrial Organisation , XIX-XX; Rowntree, Industrial Peace , 28-31. 24 Royal Holloway College Letter (July 1915), 16; Scharlieb, ‘‘Recreational Activities’, Child Study , 13-14. 25 Lloyd George, ‘Looking Forward’ (12 September 1918). 26 The Observer (15 August 1937), 8. 27 Mayfield Magazine 23 (1938), 35-6. 28 Penny Tinkler, ‘Cause for Concern: Young Women and Leisure, 1930-50’, Women’s History Review 12:2 (2003), 233-262; Warwick and Warwickshire Advertiser (10 May 1930). 29 Fletcher, Women First , 78-82. 30 Women’s Cricket (September 1931), 81-2; Hull Daily Mail (19 June 1924); Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News (16 April 1927). 31 Mary Taylor, ‘The Pioneers: Reminiscences of the Australia Tour’, Central London Fixture Bureau and Sports Gossip (n.d.). 32 Quoted in Skillen, Women, Sport and Modernity , 31-5, 46. 33 Education Act 1918, (London, 1918); John Welshman, ‘Physical culture and sport in schools in England and Wales, 1900–40’, I nternational Journal of the History of Sport 15:1 (1998), 54-75. 34 Skillen, Sport, Women and Modernity , 32-9, 46-50; quoted in Stevens, ‘Women and Cricket’, 22-4. 35 Board of Education, Report of Inspection of the County School for Girls, Tonbridge (November 1921), 14; (June 1931), 12; Report of Inspection of Gravesend County School for Girls (October 1925), 11-2. 36 Mayfield Magazine 11 (1926), 35; Tonbridge County School Magazine (October 1933), 10. 37 Paulina 23 (1912), 8-9; 77 (1930), 3-4. 38 Ibid 5 (1905), 2-3; 9 (1907), 3-4. 39 Pollard, Cricket For Women and Girls , 94-9; Selincourt, Over! , 173-84. 40 Hockey, Field and Lacrosse (July 1929), 2-3; Burnley Express (1 April 1933), 16; WCA, Yearbook 1933, 13. 41 Mayfield Magazine 4 (1919), 11. 42 Langhamer, Women’s Leisure in England , 19; McCrone, Playing the Game , 193-4. More than a Game: Citizenship and Cricket