British and Australian
newspapers of the time
reported it was thirteen and a
quarter miles, which she
completed in three hours,
fifty-four minutes and sixteen
seconds. If it was thirteen
miles (and Kellerman’s own
reference to the swim lasting
under four hours suggests it
was) then it was by no means
a record for a woman in the
Thames. Annie Luker, for
example, had swum fifteen
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