The pageant required more than fifty actresses, only three of whom had speaking parts, to portray famous women from history (not all of them remembered today). In the initial, Scala production, the only speaking role...
1750: There was published The Female Soldier; or,...
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1750
There was published The Female Soldier; or, The Surprising Life and Adventures of Hannah Snell, who claimed to have served undetected for five years in the army, wearing men's clothes.
Robinson, Jane. Pandora’s Daughters: The Secret History of Enterprising Women. Constable, 2002.
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1910: Bram Stoker published Famous Impostors, a...
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1910
Bram Stoker
published Famous Impostors, a set of sensational biographies which includes a chapter on cross-dressing women (particularly female soldiers like Hannah Snell
), and wild speculation that Queen Elizabeth the First
was actually...
31 July 1991: Shirley Gee based her play Warrior, published...
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31 July 1991
Shirley Gee
based her play Warrior, published this year, on the life of Hannah Snell
, who joined the army and went to sea, wearing men's clothes and searching for her husband, and whose...