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bathing costume.’ While Kellerman is one of the few women from the early 1900s whose name hasn’t been erased ...
British and Australian newspapers of the time reported it was thirteen and a quarter miles, which she completed in ...
miles in 1892. But even then the Brisbane Courier found it hard to accept. ‘The record for the mile is 2 ...
saw an ideal opportunity for publicity and decided to sponsor her Channel swim, inaccurately said never to have ...
swim along the coast in preparation and for the next two months she swam from Dover to Margate, averaging forty ...
hours twenty minutes, beating a time set by Jabez Wolffe byten minutes. The course had only ever been ...
heightened the excitement’. A few years later a group of ‘Maori Girls’ would swim fifteen miles in the Thames ...
(who in 1911 would become the second person to succeed after Webb) – starting from different spots. Kell ...
incredible thing to do, considering the amount of publicity surrounding the event and the fact that Edwardian ‘lad ...
Thomas Burgess was one of seven swimmers, including Annette Kellerman, who in August 1905 attempted to swim the Channel. In 1911 ...
to succeed after Captain Matthew Webb. Kellerman lasted six hours, and although she had to give up on this attempt b ...
that’s why I say that none of my sex will ever accomplish that particular stunt.’ But then, of course, in ...
she favoured women over men when it came to long distances ‘because we have more patience’, and challenge ...
short of marvellous’. She quickly became a celebrity, and was invited to swim for the Prince of Wales (later Ge ...
attempt, Kellerman then set off for France where in September the same year she competed against seventeen ...
Isacescu, whose record Eileen Lee would break in 1916. Kellerman was as well known for her swims as for what ...
most women were still wearing corsets, sleeves and a hat. She was charged with public indecency in what may ...
suit, if she kept it hidden under a robe until the moment she got into the water. She went on to design ...
career illustrates how ‘the fairer sex’ could find physical freedom as well as international recognition through ...
women’s trying to ape men in athletic affairs. I am glad this sort of new woman is dying out,’ she wrote ...
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