Following up on sundial's link, I went backwards researching:

A tiny bit more (but still doesn't totally satisfy my curiosity for facts), you have to scroll down on this website (which is interesting itself for some lighter female cycling stuff plus serious):

http://cyclodelic.wordpress.com/

Stuff on Eva Hamilton, and more supportive info. is from here, a real university library and research archive, which unsurprisingly, libraries do not have time to digitally scan their complete collections for world viewing...

http://dscalm.warwick.ac.uk/DServe/d...RefNo='nca'))