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Gender-Bending in the 18th Century

By , About.com GuideMarch 13, 2013

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Who was this character? She lived most of her life disguised in male clothing, led a life largely unavailable to women -- though she met another woman disguised as a man in the course of her "career" -- and then she nearly escaped death because she did something only a woman could do: become pregnant.

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