Nellie

I have several favorite historic female players such as Ellen Gilbert, Adele Rivero Belcher and Nellie Showalter.

Here is another article I came across about Nellie. This is from 1893.

Amazing!  Next thing you know, women will be driving automobiles and voting!

It's always fun reading these anachronistic views of female ability.

Love these old newspaper articles! 

They are pretty cool. I started looking up public opinion in the U.S. about world war one, and I found this resource which is pretty neat:

http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045211/1915-03-13/ed-1/seq-2/

I was looking for one thing and got stuck reading most of the paper. It's addictive!:)

Pretty women and horses do abound

Along with bourbon in the bluegrass state.

The lady who wears the womens' chess crown

Plays with her kitty and plays with her mate.