Downstream

oddly, wearing dainty heeled
shoes, or preparing to dive
into the Lambeth Baths.
Unlike Ivy Hawke ‘the
smiling swimmer’, or Lily
Smith, resplendently covered
in medals, Gleitze often looks
a little shy in these posed
shots. But images of her
during her Channel swim tell
another story, of sheer
exhaustion and triumph, and
her story was suitably
included in The Girls’ Book