Annie Londonderry Sells Advertising Space on Her Shirtwaist

 

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Author’s note:

During 1894-1895, Annie “Londonderry” Cohen Kopchovsky rode her bicycle around the world. Legend has it she set off with a pearl-handled revolver and a change of underwear—and nothing else. I am indebted to the research of Peter Zheutlin in Around the World on Two Wheels: Annie Londonderry’s Extraordinary Ride, 2007.

 

Author of the article

H.K. Hummel is the author of two poetry chapbooks: Boytreebird (Finishing Line Press, 2013) and Handmade Boats (Whale Sound, 2010). Her poems have recently appeared in Flyway: Journal of Writing & Environment, Meridian, and Booth. She is a Visiting Assistant Professor of poetry at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock.