Emily would swim five miles
from London Bridge to
Greenwich. He’d placed a
wager of £50 to £30; Emily
had started training, her
brother had even fixed a date.
But Professor Beckwith got
there first. On 1 September,
just before 5 p.m., Agnes, ‘of
slim make, and diminutive
stature’, took to the Thames
and ‘at once commenced a
rapid side-stroke, which she
maintained to the finish’,
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