at the Olympic Tests in 1919.
This was despite having left
school at thirteen to help her
mother and sick brother, and
now working full-time as a
shop assistant. After the 1920
Olympics in Antwerp,
swimming in a roped-off
canal basin in cold, dirty
water, she became known as
‘the English Comet’,
dominating ASA
competitions in the early
1920s, officially breaking six
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