Downstream

a report on Madame Darnley
Mitchell, ‘accomplished
swimming mistress of
Kingston baths’ who on 14
June ‘took her first swim in
the river this year’, all the
way from Ravens Ait in
Kingston upon Thames to the
Henley Baths. The distance
itself is impressive (Kingston
to Henley is twenty-seven
miles as the crow flies), but
Madame Mitchell also
performed tricks on the way,