Downstream

photograph from around 1910
shows her next to Lee’s
trainer, Walter Brickett. She
won the ‘ladies half-mile
championship in the Thames’
for three years from 1907 (the
location isn’t stated) and was
also a noted water polo
player. In 1911 she attempted
a round trip of the Solent, but
hit a submerged barrel on the
way back and, such was the
loss of blood, she had to stop.