Welcome to The Victorian Sportswoman Visual Archive, a digital companion to my dissertation on the Sportswoman and athleticized female bodies in Victorian literature and culture. I apply the modes of close reading from my traditional dissertation to annotating and curating images of women extracted from nineteenth-century periodicals. This component of my dissertation enables me to share my academic work with the aim that it will generate larger scholarly conversations around research methods and serve as a pedagogical tool for fostering critical thought about depictions of women.