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lectures for women in 1913
and appearing in shows in the
late 1920s where she was
billed as the ‘leading
exponent of physical
education and wonder woman
of the water’. In 1912 the
Cheltenham Looker-on, in a
feature called ‘women’s chit-
chat’, described her as ‘an
authority of physical culture’
who ‘holds that swimming is
the best of all exercise for
girls’. Attitudes to women