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From 1903 until 1908 Levitt wrote a motoring column for The Graphic, an illustrated weekly newspaper, [1] a series that formed the basis of The Woman and the Car. [2] Levitt's handbook was not the first targeted at women motorists – English writer Eliza Davis Aria had published Woman and the Motorcar: Being the Autobiography of an Automobilist in 1906 for instance – but it was the most ...
Dorothy Elizabeth Levitt (born Elizabeth Levi; 5 January 1882 – 17 May 1922) was a British racing driver and journalist.She was the first British woman racing driver, holder of the world's first water speed record, the women's world land speed record holder, and an author.
Susan Leigh Smith (née Vaughan; born September 26, 1971) is an American woman who was convicted of murdering her two sons, three-year-old Michael and one-year-old Alexander, in 1994 by strapping her children in their car seats, and rolling her car containing her two children into John D. Long Lake in South Carolina.
On its original airdate, "The Woman in the Car" received 12.61 million viewers with American Idol as the lead-in program, which attracted 30.15 million viewers. Although the episode was ranked first among 18 to 49-year-old viewers, it was placed second in total viewers in its Wednesday 9:00 pm ET timeslot with 8.7% household rating and 13% ...
Ramsey was born Alice Taylor Huyler, the daughter of John Edwin Huyler, a lumber dealer, and Ada Mumford Farr.She attended Vassar College from 1903 to 1905. [2] [3] On January 10, 1906, in Hackensack, New Jersey, Ramsey married congressman John R. Ramsey (1862–1933), with whom she had two children: John Rathbone Ramsey, Jr. (1907–2000), and Alice Valleau Ramsey (1910–2015), who married ...
Download as PDF; Printable version ... Help. Pages in category "Books about cars" The following 13 pages are in this category, out of 13 total. ... Wikipedia® is a ...
Denise McCluggage (January 20, 1927 – May 6, 2015) was an American auto racing driver, journalist, author and photographer. McCluggage was a pioneer of equality for women in the U.S., both in motorsports and in journalism. [1]
She paid $10,000 of her money to fund the building of one of the Blue Bird land speed record cars for Sir Malcolm Campbell, who once described her as "the greatest sportsman I know." [ 24 ] She was equally generous to John Cobb , whose record-breaking vehicle Railton Special was powered by the pair of engines from her powerboat Estelle V .