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Title

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

Fielding, Henry, 1707-1754.

Publication

London : Printed by J. Bailey, 116, Chancery-Lane, London, [between 1808 and 1822]

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Additional Authors

• Fielding, Henry, 1707-1754.
• Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878.
• Bailey, J. (John), active 1808-1824.

Description

23, 1 p., [1] fold. leaf of plates : ill. (fold., col.); 18 cm.

Subjects

• Homophobia > Great Britain
• Lesbians > Great Britain
• Female-to-male transsexuals > Great Britain
• Hamilton, Mary, active 1746
• Cross-dressers > Great Britain
• Gender identity > Great Britain

Note

• By Henry Fielding (cf. ESTC for 1746 ed.).
• John Bailey operated alone at the above address from 1808 to 1822 (cf. Brown, P.A.H. London publishers).
• Illustration: 1 folding, hand-colored engraving by G. Cruikshank.
• "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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Call Number

Pforz (Fielding, H./Surprising) 1813

OCLC

62239914

Author

Fielding, Henry, 1707-1754.

Title

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.

Imprint

London : Printed by J. Bailey, 116, Chancery-Lane, London, [between 1808 and 1822]

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Added Author

Fielding, Henry, 1707-1754. Female husband.

Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878. Engraver

Bailey, J. (John), active 1808-1824. Printer

Research Call Number

Pforz (Fielding, H./Surprising) 1813