Downstream

swimming.
Her achievement would
have been astonishing. No
woman had ever done what
she did in the Thames, and
only one man. Byron might
have boasted of his swim in
1807, but that was only three
miles. In 1826 the party of
printers had covered four and
a half miles, the Eton
Psychrolutes were swimming
the Thames a couple of
decades later, but they were