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Chapter 5 – Mrs Eliott-Lynn, Athlete
When Sophie had enjoyed that sports day at the University of Aberdeen, women’s athletics was still something of a novelty. The years from 1914 to 1918, which women spent driving jeeps, fixing engines, working in factories and cheerfully undertaking what had been seen as men’s work, accelerated social changes already evident before the war. Now, for the first time, women had cast off their corsets, girdles and long dresses to become involved in organised sport, and the short dresses worn by the French tennis player Suzanne Lenglen at Wimbledon from 1919 to 1926 were considered a defining moment in social as well as sporting history.
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