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by showing ‘wonderful
endurance’ and swimming a
staggering thirty-six and a
quarter miles from
Teddington in ten hours
seventeen minutes, thus
setting a new world record for
women. She started at
Teddington at seven in the
morning, diving from the
stern of a boat in which sat
her mother, ‘in charge of the
culinary department’, as well
as several London journalists