ext_24272 ([identity profile] heatherbelles.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] ysabetwordsmith 2014-07-07 03:34 pm (UTC)

I shall dig it out and post

Ones that I can remember off the top of my head:

Fiction:
Wheels of CHance - HG Wells
War of the Worlds - HG Wells
Three Men on a Bummel - Jerome K Jerome.
The Adventure of the Solitary Cyclist; The Adventure of the Priory School - Arthur Conan Doyle (both are in the The Return of Sherlock Holmes collection of stories.
I think there's also quite a few mentions of cycles etc in some of DH Lawerence's work>

Non-fiction
Wheels of Change - Sue Macy
Fancy Cycling 1901 - Isabelle Marks
Cyclopedia: It's All About the Bike by William Fotheringham
The Literary Cyclist - Kevin Schaeffer

Children's books that reference bikes (we've put all the above books, and these children ones I'm about to list out for people to read as part of exhibition

Miffy's Bicycle - Dick Bruna
MY first bicycle - Susan Akass
Mrs Armitage on Wheels - Quentin Blake
THe Bicycle - Colin Thompson (lots of wonderful quotes about cycles in this one)
Monsieur Albert Rides to Glory - Peter Smith & Bob Graham.



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