Love Game: A History of Tennis, from Victorian Pastime to Global Phenomenon

Elizabeth Wilson is a novelist and cultural historian whose many books include Cultural Passions, Adorned in Dreams, and The Sphinx in the City.

The University of Chicago Press, Chicago 60637

Printed in the United States of America

First published in the UK in 2014 by Serpent’s Tail, an imprint of Profile Books Ltd

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ISBN-13: 978-0-226-37128-3 (cloth)

ISBN-13: 978-0-226-37131-3 (e-book)

DOI: 10.7208/chicago/9780226371313.001.0001

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Wilson, Elizabeth, 1936– author.

Love game : a history of tennis, from Victorian pastime to global phenomenon / Elizabeth Wilson.

pages cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-0-226-37128-3 (cloth : alk. paper) — ISBN 978-0-226-37131-3 (e-book) 1. Tennis—History. I. Title.

GV992.W558 2016

796.342—dc23

2015033804

This paper meets the requirements of ANSI/NISO Z39.48-1992 (Permanence of Paper).