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set her sights once more on the Channel, she was ‘London’s best known lady swimmer’. The daughter of the s ...
campaign by suffragettes in London’s West End, leading to sentences of hard labour and solitary confin ...
the physical equal of men,’ she said. ‘I am going to put a stop forever to all this twaddle about the weaker ...
arena of politics or engage in public affairs; their proper sphere was the home. During debates in the all-mal ...
‘mental equilibrium of the female sex’ was not as stable as that of the male; they had a tendency to hysteri ...
must have been when Lily Smith entered the male sporting arena – and actually swam alongside men in t ...
flowing hair, the top half of her costume covered entirely with medals. ...
In 1907 Lily Smith accompanied Jabez ‘Jappy’ Wolffe for four hours during his Channel swim. He tried the crossing twenty-two tim ...
women’s mental and physical abilities, the press were hopeful when it came to Smith’s plan to swim the Channel ...
swimmers, but controversially disqualified American Gertrude Ederle on her first attempt when he ordered another s ...
Channel and the fastest person yet. ...
Despite repeatedly failing to cross the Channel, Jabez Wolffe completed several marathon swims, and was an accomplished walker, ...
Smith’s attempt, the press believed ‘there is no reason why a woman with her splendid physical endowments, gr ...
medals’. The fact that American swimmer Rose Pitonoff was also about to try the Channel may have had someth ...
had to be pulled on to the accompanying boat. By 1914 she was topping the bill, along with her sisters, at th ...
after that I have no idea, because, like so many other champion Thames women, she just disappears. P ...
‘swimming Derby’ from Richmond now received £100 and a gold cup. Forty-nine people started the race, and thi ...
part of the contest’. She was the first to pass Hammersmith Bridge but ‘lacked stamina’ and by halfway was ‘hopele ...
and after arriving in England she ‘broke the time record’ for eight miles between Barnes Bridge and Chelsea Brid ...
150,000 enthusiasts, using the ‘space-devouring underhand Australian stroke’. Her motto was ‘Do or Die!’, which ...
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