Cricket Witness No 4 - Women at the WIcket

32 Out of the Darkness: The Game Emerges 6 Quoted in Raf Nicholson, ‘We didn’t just make the teas: the story of women’s club cricket’, in Phil Walker and Ed Kemp (eds), The Show Must Go On (London, 2015), 144-5. 7 WCA, Minutes of the First Meeting (1926), 1; Report of the First Annual General Meeting (1927), 7-8; Hockey, Field and Lacrosse (September 1929), 2. 8 Nancy Joy, Maiden Over: A Short History of Women’s Cricket (Woking, 1950), 26-7. I Zingari (meaning “The Gypsies”) was established in 1845 and is the most famous and exclusive of these clubs. 9 Quoted in Rachael Heyhoe-Flint and Netta Rheinberg (eds), Fair Play: The Story of Women’s Cricket (Aylesbury, 1976), 13, 21-4; Threlfall-Sykes, ‘History of Women’s Cricket’, 341. 10 Kathleen McCrone, Playing the Game: Sport and the Physical Emancipation of English Women, 1870-1914 (Kentucky, 1988), 141-2. 11 Ibid , 144; Threlfall-Sykes, ‘History of Women’s Cricket’, 65. 12 Royal Holloway College Letter (Royal Holloway archive, July 1981), 14; McCrone, Playing the Game , 27-41; Manchester Women’s Union Sports Committee Accounts Book (1913-1937); Bedford College Magazine (Royal Holloway archives, July 1920), 24. 13 Gillian Avery, The Best Type of Girl: A History of Girls’ Independent Schools (London, 1991), 1-15, 270-4; McCrone, Playing the Game , 76-83; St. Leonard’s School Gazette (November 1888), 58-61. 14 Paulina 1:8 (1904), 8; A History of Tonbridge Grammar School for Girls 1905- 1989 (Tonbridge School archive, Sevenoaks, 1989), 6; The Mayfield Magazine 2 (Gravesend Grammar School archive, 1917), 8; David Bolam, Unbroken Community: The Story of the Friends’ School, Saffron Walden (Saffron Walden, 1952), 128. 15 Quoted in McCrone, Playing the Game , 76-80. 16 Eric Hobsbawm, Industry and Empire (Suffolk, 1974), 164. 17 McCrone, Playing the Game , 27-9, 40; WCA, First Meeting, 2-11; Bergman- Österberg Union, ‘Cricket’ (http://bergmanosterbergunion.org.uk/?page_ id=715). 18 Manchester Times (12 July 1890); Isabelle Duncan, Skirting the Boundary: A History of Women’s Cricket (London, 2013), 20-3. 19 The Leeds Mercury (1 March 1890); Grace, Cricketing Reminiscences , 218-9; Heyhoe-Flint and Rheinberg, Fair Play , 25-7. 20 Peter Davies, ‘Bowling Maidens Over: 1931 and the Beginnings of Women’s Cricket in a Yorkshire Town’, Sport in History 28:2 (2008), 281-3; BWM (November 1902); Threlfall-Sykes, ‘History of Women’s Cricket’, 417. 21 Skillen, Women, Sport and Modernity , 1; Raf Nicholson, ‘“Like a man trying to knit”: Women’s Cricket in Britain, 1945-2000’, (Unpublished PhD thesis, Queen Mary, University of London, 2015), 91-108. 22 Derek Birley, Playing the Game : Sport and British Society, 1910-45 (Manchester, 1995) 203-11; Jennifer Hargreaves, Sporting Females: Critical Issues in the History and Sociology of Women’s Sports (London, 1994), 121-5; Skillen, Women , Sport and Modernity , 56-70. 23 Cocoa Works Magazine (CWM) (July 1914), 1709-10. 24 Jean Williams, A Contemporary History of Women’s Sport (Oxford, 2014), 153; Skillen, Women, Sport and Modernity , 184-98. 25 Ina Zweiniger-Bargielowska, Managing the Body: Beauty, Health and Fitness in Britain, 1880-1939 (Oxford, 2010), 151-173, 309-11. 26 The Observer (15 August 1937), 8; Sunderland Daily Echo and Shipping Gazette (5 April 1938), 6. 27 Beddoe, Back to Home , 123. 28 Women’s Cricket (September 1930), 64-5. For example, Henry Durant, The Problem of Leisure (London, 1938). 29 Zweiniger-Bargielowska, Managing the Body , 294-5. 30 Virginia Nicholson, Singled Out: How Two Million Women Survived Without Men after the First World War (London, 2007), XI; Beddoe, Back to Home , 26-7. 31 Myrtle Maclagan, Condensed Diaries, 1911-1955 (WCA archive, 1955); Deirdre Macpherson, The Suffragette’s Daughter: Betty Archdale, her Life of Feminism, Cricket, War and Education (New South Wales, 2002), 62; Reynolds’s News (24 May 1931). 32 CWS, Ourselves (July 1933), 22; McCrone, Playing the Game , 128-38; L. Oliver, ‘“No Hard-Brimmed Hats or Hat-Pins Please”: Bolton Women Cotton-Workers and the Game of Rounders, 1911-39’, Oral History 25 (1997), 40-45. 33 Skillen, Women, Sport and Modernity , 75-85; Board of Education, Recreation and Physical Fitness for Girls and Women (London, 1937); Claire Langhamer, Women’s Leisure in England 1920-60 (Manchester, 2000), 79. 34 Birley, Playing the Game , 211, 237; Williams, History of Women’s Sport , 132-42.