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weren’t allowed to compete. ‘I am not trying to shut men out of swimming,’ she wrote. ‘There is enough water in ...
work’. Swimming she concluded ‘will make the thin women fat and the fat women thin’. Swimming was also the on ...
women had more ‘fatty tissue’ which meant they stayed warmer, could more easily float and were less liable to ...
jersey swimming cap for going to and from the water, and a fashionable silk bandanna worn over a rubber b ...
woman should wear heavy, awkward bathing suits than there ‘is that you should wear lead chains’. After retiri ...
wrote that ‘this trained seal stuff gets on one’s nerves’. In 1908 a Harvard academic, who had apparently ...
lectures for women in 1913 and appearing in shows in the late 1920s where she was billed as the ‘leading ex ...
swimming were certainly changing; there were more swimming baths, some allowing mixed bathing, seaside res ...
Kellerman went on to become a Hollywood film star, one of the main reasons she’s still remembered today, w ...
of the Gods she appeared in many scenes naked and although she later insisted she was wearing ‘very thin ...
perilous dives, if we could easily rise to the challenge of the Thames or the Channel, then maybe we weren’ ...
Daughter of the Gods,’ declared the New York Times Journal. ‘If votes were obtained by physical or mental ...
was turned into a film, Million Dollar Mermaid, starring swimmer-turned- actress Esther Williams. In 1974 Keller ...
that way today. Although she doesn’t appear to have made any mention of those who came before her, and she ...
books, a biography and a picture book for children. Yet when she is written about now it is as if what she ...
Eighteen-year-old Agnes Nicks surveys the Thames opposite the Houses of Parliament in 1928. She became known as a cold water exp ...
She wasn’t the only woman to choose Putney as a place to begin a swim. In March 1931 it was the turn of ...
put aboard a boat and ‘conveyed to a riverside house, and there put to bed, and surrounded by hot water bottles ...
the oil and petrol of the Thames’. In November Pathé News filmed ‘Miss Nicks swimming in the Thames near the H ...
her trainer, and accompanied by a small boat. She appears to be arriving at Westminster Bridge and then at ...
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