Downstream

residence near Kew and ‘is in
active training for her
proposed attempt to break the
records of Montague Holbein,
Fred Bownes and Matthew
Webb in the matter of long
distance swims in the
Thames’. No mention is made
of any women’s records
Kellerman may have wanted
to beat, as if those who came
before her never existed; or
perhaps it was just seen as
more dramatic and