Cricket Witness No 4 - Women at the WIcket

3 Contents Foreword by Alison Mitchell 4 Introduction It gradually got that you were free’: 6 Women’s Cricket in the First World War Chapter One Out of the Darkness: The Game Emerges 20 Chapter Two ‘The cohorts of cricket are being swollen’ 33 Chapter Three It’s not Cricket? 47 Public Hostility and Apathy Chapter Four ‘Too much emphasis on personal comfort’ 57 Chapter Five Workplace and Working-Class 74 Women’s Cricket Chapter Six Separate but Equal: 94 Feminism Divides the Game Chapter Seven More than a Game: 110 Citizenship and Cricket Chapter Eight ‘The idea a girl cannot play cricket 124 has proved to be rubbish’ Conclusion War Again, and its Aftermath 137 Select Bibliography 150 Acknowledgements 151 Index 152