Uncovering a cross-dressing tale
http://www.usyd.edu.au/news/84.html?newsstoryid=276710/30/20008
Edward de Lacy Evans arrived in Australia on 23 June 1856, married a
fellow passenger and settled in Sandhurst (modern Bendigo). Once this
relationship failed, he married another woman and, after her untimely
death, a third one with whom he had a child. It wasn't till 1879 that
it was discovered that de Lacy Evans was actually a woman.
This is one of many astonishing tales of courage, adventure and daring
rebellion, abuses of power, death and imprisonment, in the new book
from Sydney University Press: Parting with my sex: cross-dressing,
inversion and sexuality in Australian cultural life by Lucy Chesser.
