tiring but she ‘struggled on
with the utmost gameness’,
refusing to leave the water.
However, after nearly five
hours and having covered
sixteen miles, with ‘no
refreshment at all’, she was
helped out of the river and on
to the accompanying boat,
exhausted. Apart from
Madame Mitchell swimming
from Kingston to Henley in
1888, this is the earliest long-
distance Thames swim by a
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