Ladies or Gentlemen: Women Who Posed as Men and Men Who Impersonated Women

by Charles John Samuel Thompson

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1566191998
• ISBN13: 9781566191999
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: Dorset PRESS
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.

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"Ladies or Gentlemen? is a catalogue of some of the most extraordinary men and women in history. It is a true history of impersonation - men who posed as women, and women who posed as men. Many of these individuals were high-spirited adventurers with a truly romantic imagination. There were women who fought successfully as soldiers and pirates, and men who dressed and lived as women undetected for a lifetime. Many of these people have become legendary, Hannah Snell, for example, married and had a child before serving as a man in the army and at sea. There was Loreta Velasquez, who fought as a man in the Confederate army during the Civil War and was commended by General Stonewall Jackson, who suspected nothing. Then there was the bizarre story of Chevalier d'Eon, a soldier condemned by King Louis XV to live as a woman for the rest of his life. There is an intense human interest in these strange but true stories of successful impersonation, and they help to highlight the eternal mystery of the difference between the sexes."