Frances Quinn: The True Scandal Behind The Scandalous Ladies' Football Club

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Opublikowano: 2026-09-21

Victorian Women Weren't Allowed to Play Football. They Did It Anyway. In 1897, a woman calling herself Nettie Honeyball founded Britain's first ladies' football club — and doctors wrote to the newspapers warning it would make women infertile. Author Frances Quinn joins me to talk about The Scandalous Ladies' Football Club, her brilliant historical fiction novel inspired by that true story, and the real Victorian scandal of women simply choosing to play the game. We talk about inventing a fictional rival team to give the real history its missing plot, writing three women each trapped by Victorian so...