During her travels , she gave lectures about her adventures , often exaggerating her exploits . These enthralled the media and boosted her popularity . For instance , in France she described herself as an orphan , wealthy heiress , a Harvard medical student , the inventor of a new method of stenography , and the niece of a U.S. senator . While in the United States , she told stories about hunting tigers in India with German royalty and getting sent to a Japanese prison with a bullet wound . She also gave cycling demonstrations and sold promotional photos of herself , souvenir pins , and autographs . After the trip , she accepted an offer to write about her adventures as the " New Woman " and moved her family to New York City to continue her journalism career . The article began " I am a journalist and a ' new woman , ' if that term means that I believe I can do anything that any man can do . " Londonderry died in obscurity in 1947 . In 2007 Peter Zheutlin , her great-nephew , published '' Around the World on Two Wheels : Annie Londonderry 's Extraordinary Ride '' . In 2011 , Evalyn Parry premiered '' SPIN '' , her bicycle-themed performance piece that includes a song about Londonderry ( " The Ballad of Annie Londonderry " ) , and presented it on tour in Canada and the US . Gillian Klempner Willman of Spokeswoman Productions wrote , directed , produced a 26-minute documentary film titled '' The New Woman - Annie " Londonderry " Kopchovsky '' . It premiered in February 2013 at the DC Independent Film Festival , where it won the award for Best Documentary
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Annie Londonderry