Born in Brighton in 1900,
Gleitze learned to swim by
the age of ten and on 5
August 1923 she had set a
British women’s record for a
ten-hour, forty-five-minute
swim in the Thames, covering
twenty-seven miles between
Putney and Silvertown. This
was her second attempt; she’d
already tried the course a
week earlier. Four years later
‘the London typist’, as the
press repeatedly called her,
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