become the first woman to
‘attempt to rival Webb’ by
swimming the Channel. She
was then thirty, of medium
height and ‘powerful
physique’. But, twenty miles
out of Calais, she was forced
to give up.
Yet despite her being ‘long
distance lady champion of the
world’ in 1916, I can find
very little on Eileen Lee but
for a handful of newspaper
clippings. What happened to
jeff_l
(Jeff_L)
#1