posing with Brickett, still
talking animatedly, next to
whom is her father,
Teddington lock keeper
Patrick Lee.
In June 1916, now
described as the ‘women’s
world record holder’, she
‘eclipsed all records made by
men as to time’, swimming
twenty-three and a half miles
in seven hours from the Naval
College at Greenwich. Then,
on 19 August, she topped that
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