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Published on: 12/31/20 2:42 PM

Tales of women soldiers feature in the new book ‘Cross-dressed to Kill’ from Bosham’s Vivien Morgan.

Tales of women soldiers feature in the new book ‘Cross-dressed to Kill’ from Bosham’s Vivien Morgan.

“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?

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The Handsome Cabin Boy

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…

Published on: 12/4/20 5:19 PM

How to read a book

How to read a book

'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…

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Patriotism has no sex- for cross-dressing women

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…

Published on: 10/6/20 10:42 AM

girls can be tomboys

My book tells the stories of teenagers and young women in their 20s who dressed as men to go and fight. Would they be prescribed gender-changing drugs today? For them…