Serious Duties of National Life: Women's Sports and Service in the British Empire

Authors

  • Abby Wolf

Keywords:

A Sportswomen in India, sport, women's sport, bodies, nineteenth century, British history, empire, colonialism, soldiers

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2020-06-11