Swimming with Dr Johnson and Mrs Thrale : sport, health and exercise in eighteenth-century England / Julia Allen.

Cambridge : Lutterworth Press, 2012.

viii, 297 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Introduction -- Exercise -- Dr Johnson & Mrs Thrale: some mainly medical notes -- Doing things "differently" -- Boxing --Cricket -- Dancing -- Root-racing, leaping and climbing -- Riding -- Skating -- Swimming -- Coach travel -- "Conclusion, in which nothing is concluded"