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The surprising adventures of a female husband!

Title
  1. The surprising adventures of a female husband! Containing, the whimsical amours, curious incidents, and diabolical tricks of Miss M. Hamilton, alias Mr. G. Hamilton, alias Minister Bently, alias Doctor O'Keefe, alias Mrs. Knight, the midwife, &c. who married three wives! And lived with each sometime undiscovered, for which acts, she was tried at the summer sessions, in the county of Somerset in the year 1752, found guilty, and whipped four several times, in four market towns, and afterwards imprisoned six months : notwithstanding which, on the evening of the first day of her exposure she attempted to bribe the goaler to procure her a fine young girl to gratify her most monstrous and unnatural propensity.
Author
  1. Fielding, Henry, 1707-1754
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  1. London : Printed by J. Bailey, 116, Chancery-Lane, London, [between 1808 and 1822]
Format
  1. Book/text

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Additional authors
  1. Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878
  2. Bailey, J. (John), active 1808-1824
Description
  1. 23, 1 p., [1] fold. leaf of plates : ill. (fold., col.); 18 cm.
Subject
  1. Hamilton, Mary, active 1746. - [Browse in index]
  2. Lesbians -- Great Britain. - [Browse in index]
  3. Gender identity -- Great Britain. - [Browse in index]
  4. Female-to-male transsexuals -- Great Britain. - [Browse in index]
  5. Homophobia -- Great Britain. - [Browse in index]
  6. Cross-dressers -- Great Britain. - [Browse in index]
Call number
  1. Pforz (Fielding, H./Surprising) 1813
Language
  1. English
Note
  1. By Henry Fielding (cf. ESTC for 1746 ed.).
  2. John Bailey operated alone at the above address from 1808 to 1822 (cf. Brown, P.A.H. London publishers).
  3. Illustration: 1 folding, hand-colored engraving by G. Cruikshank.
  4. "In all of Fielding's history of Mary Hamilton before the arrest, the only statements squaring with the court records are these: Mary Hamilton, masquerading as a doctor, married Mary Price at Wells and deceived her with some strange device; Mary Hamilton came to Somersetshire from Devonshire; she once took lodgings in a house owned by a 'Mrs.'; one of the girls she married had an aunt." -- (cf. Baker, Sheridan. "Henry Fielding's the Female Husband: Fact and Fiction." PMLA, Vol. 74, No. 3. (Jun., 1959), pp. 213-224).
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Author
  1. Fielding, Henry, 1707-1754.
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  1. Fielding, Henry, 1707-1754. Female husband.
  2. Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878. Engraver
  3. Bailey, J. (John), active 1808-1824. Printer
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