Cricket Witness No 4 - Women at the WIcket

153 Connor, Clare, 5 Conservative Party, The, 22, 130-31 Constantine, Learie, 36, 72 Cooper, Gladys, 7, 45 Co-operative Wholesale Society, 89-91, 94 country-house cricket, 22-24, 78 County Championship (men’s), 14, 20, 44 Cox, Vera, 98, 146 Crawley, Aidan, 47 cricket clubs; Clifton Ladies’ Cricket Club (Bristol), 23 Dragonflies Ladies’ Cricket Club, 23 Galmpton and Torquay Women’s Cricket Club, 82 Great Comp Women’s Cricket Club, 41 Gunnersbury Women’s Cricket Club, 42, 68, 119, 138 Hastings Women’s Cricket Club, 13 Holywood Ladies’ Cricket Club, 12 Ilford Wanderers Women’s Cricket Club, 78 Innishannon Ladies’ Cricket Club, 40 Redoubtables Ladies’ Cricket Club, 82 Severn Valley Ladies’ Cricket Club, 23 St Leonards Women’s Cricket Club (Hastings), 13 St Quentin’s Ladies’ Cricket Club (London), 23 Todmorden Women’s Cricket Club, 105-6 White Heather Club (Nun Appleton, Yorkshire), 22 , 23, 26, 78 ‘Cricket Week’, see Colwall, Herefordshire Cricketer , The , 51, 61, 102, 114, 125-26, 140 Crittall Manufacturing Company, 11, 84 croquet, 11, 97 Crystal Palace, 8 , 9 cycling, 28-30, 68, 100, 125 dancing, 7, 11-12, 20, 31, 36, 57, 60-61, 82, 133; Margaret Morris Movement, 133 Dann, Doris, 77 Davis, Joan, 59, 126-27 Doman, Kathleen, 25, 100, 131 Dove, Frances Jane, 111-13 dress code, see clothing Edge, Connie, 85 Edwards, Charlotte, 148 enfranchisement, 7, 18, 50, 62, 94, 97, 102, 112; and emancipation, 14, 16, 96-100, 102, 108, 113, 124-25 England, women’s cricket; cancelled tour (1939-40), 21, 70 , 137 national team 4-5, 14, 146, 147 , 148 tour of Australia and New Zealand (1934-35), 14, 36, 37 , 38 , 39 , 50 , 51, 59, 76, 98-99, 103, 124 England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB), 5, 108, 148 English Women’s Cricket Federation, 16-17, 34-36, 42-44, 71, 115-16, 121, 125-26, 140-41; and class, 75-76, 79-80, 82, 106-8, 141 and feminism, 95-96, 104-5, 107-8, 141 leagues/competitions, 34-35 professionalism, 104-8, 141 and the Second World War, 142 and sexual relations 59-61 Etaples (France), 9 eugenics, 25, 28-9, 54, 112, 116 fashion, see clothing Federation of Working Girls’ Clubs, The, 79 femininity,23-24, 26, 28, 30, 47-49, 51- 55, 61-72, 86-87, 103-4, 111-12, 127, 129, 131, 139-41; see also clothing feminism, 17, 26, 53-54, 86, 94-108, 112, 116, 124-25, 139; and ‘sports separatism’, 31, 60-61, 104-7, 141, 146, 148 defined, f.109 First World War, 6-18, 25, 28, 30-31, 40, 48, 94, 98; women’s employment/volunteering in, 6-13, 16-18, 20, 86-87, 88, 114, 118, 137, 141 fitness classes, calisthenics and drill, 28, 30, 59, 110, 141 flappers, 51, 62, 125 football, 10-11, 13-14, 30, 48, 53-54, 62, 65-70, 83-84, 101, 107, 114, 121, 129, 141, 144; Dick, Kerr’s Ladies’ Football Club, 65-66, 68, 70 , 80 Football Association, 30, 65-66, 141 ground attacked by suffragettes, 94 Stoke Ladies’ Football Club, 65 Franklin, Henrietta, 97 Fry, C.B., 71 General Strike (1926), 22, 88 George, Lloyd, 10, 116 George IV, King, 50 Gilligan, Arthur, 33 Girl Guides, 133 Girl’s Own Paper , 45, 54, 102, 124, 126 Glamorgan County Cricket Club, 147 Goldstein, Vida, 100 golf, 28, 31, 42, 49, 59, 71, 104, 114, 132, 141; Ladies’ Golf Union, 28 Grace, W.G., 9-10, 18, 23, 26, 71, 78 Great Depression, 20, 42, 75, 97, 105 Index