Annie Londonderry - The New Woman

The New Woman

After the trip, Annie Kopchovsky moved her family to New York, where under the by-line “The New Woman,” she wrote sensational features for several months for the New York World. Her first story was an account of her cycling adventure. “I am a journalist and ’a new woman,’” she wrote, ”if that term means that I believe I can do anything that any man can do.”

Her fame soon passed and she died in obscurity in 1947. However, in 2007 a great-nephew of Annie's, Peter Zheutlin, published the book Around the World on Two Wheels: Annie Londonderry's Extraordinary Ride. A documentary film, titled The New Woman - Annie "Londonderry" Kopchovsky, is also being produced, by Gillian Klempner Willman of Spokeswoman Productions. The film is slated to premiere in the summer of 2012.