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Uncovering a cross-dressing tale

Started by Natasha, October 30, 2008, 05:28:38 PM

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October 30, 2008, 05:28:38 PM
Uncovering a cross-dressing tale

http://www.usyd.edu.au/news/84.html?newsstoryid=2767
10/30/20008

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.
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