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girl will now remain ignorant
of swimming?’ Press reports
frequently mentioned her
‘ease and grace’ and she was
nicknamed ‘the Lambeth
Naiad’. The Era reported that
‘an immense number of
spectators thronged’
Westminster Bridge and the
Thames Embankment, and
‘accompanied’ by the steamer
Matrimony, gaily ‘decorated
with flags, and attended on by
her father and redoubtable