woman to successfully
complete the crossing.
‘Thank God, I am conscious,’
she declared, before
collapsing on the shore in
dense fog. Since Webb’s
1875 swim, nine other people
had managed the Channel,
including three British men
and two American women.
‘Girl Conquers Channel,’
announced the national press,
Mercedes Gleitze was now
‘the most amazing girl in
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