Mrs Baguley
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greenwoodsideTo Mrs Baguley, who won the women's skeleton sled race down the Cresta Run in 1925
She might have won more, but some men discovered that doing the Cresta Run – 1.2km in 1 minute – caused breast cancer, and so women had to be stopped for their own welfare.
Who were you Mrs Baguley? The internet says your initials were J. M. So perhaps you were a Jane, or a Janet? To be hanging round an early Swiss ski resort, you would probably have been wealthy, if not laden down with riches.
If Baguley is even your real name, and you weren't using a pseudonym for some propriety-related reason.
You seem like the kind of person that should have had a poem written about you by – I don't know – Carol Ann Duffy, UA Fanthorpe, or something spiky and odd by Stevie Smith. I can imagine one of Smith's drawings illustrating your 1925 victory.
If Baguley is even your real name, and you weren't using a pseudonym for some propriety-related reason.
You seem like the kind of person that should have had a poem written about you by – I don't know – Carol Ann Duffy, UA Fanthorpe, or something spiky and odd by Stevie Smith. I can imagine one of Smith's drawings illustrating your 1925 victory.
