Downstream

according to Holbein, was for
a wager of £100.
In 1916, when Eileen Lee
swam thirty-six miles from
Teddington, the British press
still remembered Beckwith.
She was the ‘pioneer of long
distance swimming for ladies’
and her twenty-mile swim in
1878 had stood as a record
until Lee beat it. The
Australian press remembered
her, too; an article in 1911 on
‘LADY SWIMMERS SOME