1824c.3

English Novel Cites Base-ball as Girls' Pastime, Limns Cricket Match

Salience	Noteworthy
Tags	Famous, Females, FictionFamous, Females, Fiction
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City/State/Country:	England
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Game	Base BallBase Ball
Immediacy of Report	Contemporary
Age of Players	JuvenileJuvenile
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Text	[A] "Better than playing with her doll, better even than base-ball, or sliding or romping, does she like to creep of an evening to her father's knee." [B]Bateman states that Our Village, which was initially serialised in The Lady's Magazine between 1824 and 1832, contains the first comprehensive prose description of a cricket match." See
Sources	[A] Mitford, Mary Russell, Our Village [London, R. Gilbert], per David Block, Baseball Before We Knew It, page 191. Block notes that this novel was published in New York in 1828, and Tom Altherr [email of April 2, 2009] adds that there were Philadelphia editions in 1835 and 1841. [B] Bateman, Anthony,"'More Mighty than the Bat, the Pen . . . ;' Culture,, Hegemony, and the Literaturisaton of Cricket," Sport in History, v. 23, 1 (Summer 2003), page 34.
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