troupe of lady swimmers’,
and in the coming years she
taught many women to swim,
with her pupils giving benefit
shows.
She also returned to the
Thames. In July 1878 her
twenty-mile swim from
Westminster to Richmond
and back to Mortlake
received huge press coverage.
One journalist applauded
‘little Missie Beckwith’s
marvellous swim . . . What
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