Read the reviews of Abigail Shrier's book 'Irreversible Damage'. A scary trend of teenage girls moving from anorexia,self-harm and suicide to wanting transgender identities and treatment including surgery. What, she asks is wrong with being a girl? They're not defective boys. They're different- vive la difference!
“I found a Victorian book years ago in a Worcestershire bookshop that featured five women soldiers and was fascinated.
“I was encouraged by friends including the writer Jilly Cooper to do a book as no one had heard about women who masqueraded as men. So I did more research and found out that there were hundreds of known women globally who did this.
“Why and how is what I wanted to know. Were they gay, tomboys, patriots or just like Louisa May Alcott desperate to ‘do something’ as they lived through decades of war?
Cross-dressed to Kill should be shared in schools to demonstrate that the old-fashioned notion of the 'traditional' role of women didn't work....
A recording by Kate Bush of the 'Handsome Cabin Boy 'on You Tube. The ancient song is about Mary Anne Talbot, one of my soldier women who was abducted and…
'How one should read a book' is an essay by Virginia Woolf, discussed briefly on the radio this morning. so relevant to all of us in lockdown. Woolf urges us…
Attitudes towards women being active in the American Civil War of 1861 were misogynistic and offensive until need overcame prejudice. While cross-dressed women (an estimated 750 known) were slipping through…
They're not a bunch of cross-dressers- they're the Green Berets!
Yesterday I visited Chawton House that has a special library of 6000 women's books and from this they have curated an exhibition about cross-dressing women soldiers. Called 'Man Up' it…
The Battle of Trafalgar is where Nelson defeated Napoleon.He led a smaller British fleet against a combined Spanish and French fleet who lost 22 ships without losing a single British…
What fascinated me most when researching my book, is what drove these the young women and teenagers to take this radical and dangerous step. Cross-dressing women risked prosecution with penalties…
