The Woman and The Car, Reading 1
Boring Books for Bedtime Readings to Help You Sleep
Sharon Handy
4.6 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 11 March 2019
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Tonight we relax with The Woman and The Car, written in 1909 by racing pioneer Dorothy Levitt. If you stay awake, you, too, will know how to drive a single cylinder, 8 horsepower vehicle . . . with style!
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| 0:00.0 | Good evening and welcome to boring books for bedtime. |
| 0:07.0 | I hope tonight's installment provides all the boredom your busy brain needs to quiet down and let you get some sleep for once. |
| 0:17.0 | So lie back, adjust your volume, take a nice deep breath, and off we go. |
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| 0:49.7 | And now let's get to the reading. |
| 0:52.8 | This evening we're reading The Woman and the Car, a chatty little handbook for all women |
| 0:59.3 | who motor or who want to motor, by Dorothy Leavitt, edited with introductory articles by |
| 1:06.9 | see Bing Hall, illustrated by photographs specially taken, published by John Lane Company, London and New York, |
| 1:17.0 | 1999. |
| 1:20.0 | Let's begin. Introductory. |
| 1:25.0 | In presenting this book to the public, the publisher is acting largely on the request of some |
| 1:31.8 | hundreds of ladies, |
| 1:34.0 | some already motorists, others would be motorists. |
| 1:39.0 | Miss Dorothy Leavitt last year wrote a short series of articles for the Daily Graphic on the subject of motoring for women. These articles attracted a great deal of attention, and Miss Leavitt was inundated with letters from all parts of the United Kingdom and also from abroad, asking her for further information on various points, and also begging her to publish the articles and additional information in volume form. |
| 2:07.0 | Ms. Leavitt was also asked to contribute articles on the same lines to many magazines and weekly publications, and further received |
| 2:16.6 | requests from a number of distinguished women to give them personal instruction in the |
| 2:21.4 | art of driving and managing the mechanism of their cars. |
| 2:26.5 | As the simplest way out of answering all these requests, Ms. Leavitt has revised and enlarged her former articles and has added new chapters and a great deal of matter which she believes every woman motorist or beginner will find of use. There has been no attempt to make this volume a formal |
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