various authorities, notably Havelock Ellis, speak of her as homosexual.

Bram Stoker in his book, "Famous Imposters," New York, Sturgis and Walton, 1910, tells of a large number of famous female transvestites. He lists three women who passed as male soldiers, four who lived as sailors, and two notorious women pirates, Mary Reid and Ann Bonney. He gives a detailed life of Hannah Snell, an English Soldior and sailor of the 1700s, and a long account of the very famous opera singer, Madeleine Maupin d'Aubigny, who was immortalized by Theophile Gautier in his "Mademoiselle de Maupin".

In England in the middle 1700s a woman named Mary East passed her entire adult life as James How. She and her lover lived together as Mr. and Mrs. How for 30 years and were respected members of their community. Charlotte Charke, English actress and authoress of the 1700s spont most of her life from age five on in men's clothes. Toward the end of her life she lived with another actress as Mr. and Mrs. Brown.

In "Coronet Magazine", September, 1957, an article entitled "Women Who Wanted to be Men" by Rosanne Smith, tells a number of brief histories of successful transvestites during the 1800s. Most of them were either soldiers or sailors during the Civil War. The authoress of this article was careful to skirt any implication of variance but the inference is obvious.

In the "American Mercury", April, 1957, an article appears on the life of Western mule driver, one-eyed Charlie Parkhurst. Some 53 years before women's suffrage Charlie Durkee Parkhurst voted and thus was undoubtedly the first woman to vote in the United States. In 1879 Charlie died and was discovered to be a woman.

On the other side of the world an English woman, Dr. James Miranda Barry, the first English-speaking woman doctor in the world, was making a different kind of history. Masquerading all her life as a man, she was a medical of ficer in the British army, 1813-1865. In 1858 she was mado Inspector-General of hospitals and not until her