Lillias Campbell Davidson
Lillias Campbell Davidson was an American-born British writer.
She founded the Lady Cyclists' Association. In 2018, the New York Times published a belated obituary for her.Life
According to Elizabeth Robins Pennell, another American cyclist in London at the same time, Davidson was employed by Bicycling News and the Cyclists' Touring Club Gazette.
She lived for a time with Alice Werner, a teacher of Bantu, and Ménie Muriel Dowie, a British writer of the New Woman school. According to the New York Times:Works
Non-fiction
- Hints to Lady Travellers at Home and Abroad, Iliffe & Son: London, 1889. ; London: Elliott and Thompson, 2011.,
- Handbook for Lady Cyclists, Hay Nisbett & Co, c.1896
- ''Catherine of Bragança : Infanta of Portugal and Queen-Consort of England, J Murray, 1908;, Forgotten Books, 2016
Fiction
- Houses of Clay, S W Partridge, 19--
- Second Lieutenant Celia, Bliss Sands, 1898
- For Lack of Love, Horace Marshall & Son, 1900
- The Theft of a Heart, C Arthur Pearson, 1902
- The Confessions of a Matchmaking Mother, J F Taylor, 1902.
- Purple and Fine Linen, Ward, Lock & Co, 1916
- A Girl's Battle... With six illustrations. London, 1933.
Serialised
- The Twentieth of June, 1887
- The Young Man from Chicago, 1900
- Thief and Heiress, 1911
- The Touchstone, 1912
- The Marriage Trap: The Story of a Woman's Sin and a Young Man's Folly, 1912
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