No title.

Summary

Report on the death of a well-known figure of London, M. de Verdun, who was discovered to be of the "female sex" when he died of breast cancer. "The person known by the name of M. de Verdun, whom our Readers must have remembered about the streets of London, for a great number of years, wearing a little bag wig and a large cocked hat, and carrying an umbrella, died last week of a cancer in the breast, being it appears a female, though she always wore a masculine habit. By papers found in her apartments, it seems she was the natural daughter of the late King of Prussia, and came to England with Madame Schwellenberg, Mistress of the Robes to her Majesty. She subsisted by teaching foreign languages. In her lodgings a number of valuable suits of cloaths have been found, in which she used, till within these few years, to attend at Court on gala days in the male character, having never been known in any other since her residence in this country, except to her patroness."

Full Title

27 Jul 1802. No title. Times p. 2 c. C.

Publication

Full Record

Date

27 July 1802

Provisional Category

Woman Worker

Cross-dressing activity

Work; Gender transition

Cross-dressing occupation

Teacher