Downstream

a quarter of a century later by
Madame von Isacescu. But it
appears this was too
expensive for her father to
finance, although he was now
advertising her as ‘Heroine of
the Thames and Tyne’.
Like other professional
swimming performers, Agnes
Beckwith travelled the
country giving exhibitions at
seaside regattas and indoor
pools. In July 1880 she spent
thirty hours treading water at