swim along the coast in
preparation and for the next
two months she swam from
Dover to Margate, averaging
forty-five miles a week. She
was also sponsored by
Cadbury’s Bournville Cocoa,
which she drank regularly
during her trial swims
although it made her sick.
In July 1905 she ‘beat all
records for the swim from
Dover to Ramsgate’, covering
around eighteen miles in four
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