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| Date | Summary | Actions |
|---|---|---|
| 28 Feb 1785 |
| Masquerade Editorial: OT proscription of men crossdressing, a man in "the habit of a woman ... is the most ordinary disguise of our present … |
| View record for #374 |
| 8 Apr 1785 | News that Mad. D'Eon obtained permission to make the journey to England in "man's clothes". | View record for #378 |
| 9 Apr 1785 | Prince Henry of Prussia visits Chevalier D'Eon | View record for #383 |
| 9 Apr 1785 | Mary Piles "committed to Newgate" by magistrate R. Smith for burglary "in man's apparel, which she has worn several years"; steals from Abra… | View record for #387 |
| 11 Apr 1785 | Mary Pile "tried in mens clothes, which she constantly wears" for stealing from Abraham Abbott, the individual she shared a bed with at a pu… | View record for #393 |
| 20 Apr 1785 | Epilogue-Prologue "spoken by Mrs. Wells, in the character of Macheath after the Beggar's Opera" discusses an "age, where sexes meet each oth… | View record for #396 |
| 20 Apr 1785 | Report about the servants's reception of "a person dressed in very decent woman's apparel" who "knocked at the door of a gentleman's house i… | View record for #422 |
| 25 Apr 1785 | "Though the stage cannot boast a figure of finer symmetry than the Martyr sports, yet her appearance in breeches and in a man's part, must l… | View record for #424 |
| 3 May 1785 | "The Siddons has determined never again to wear the breeches; a circumstance of great domestic moment." ”The second dress of the Siddons, sa… | View record for #425 |
| 5 May 1785 | “a certain Lord, who not long since indicted his cook maid at Ryegate assizes, for giving away a piece of beef” beats "a poor woman picking … | View record for #428 |
| 7 Sept 1785 | Woman named Davis "genteelly dressed" in "boy's apparel" robbed "Mr. W---" after lying in the same room as him and has been "taken into cust… | View record for #443 |
| 30 Sept 1785 | Another paper is correct in its comment on an item from the Universal Register: "the Lord Chamberlain has not a power to prohibit the appear… | View record for #446 |
| 30 Sept 1785 | Mrs. Martyr to play Macheath this evening. Various sexual/sexist japes on women in breeches: "Much is expected from Mrs. Martyr in breeches-… | View record for #447 |
| 30 Sept 1785 | "Mrs. Martyr in Macheath.--Mrs. Martyr is a bold woman: not bolder than other ladies on the stage. Mrs. Kennedy, Miss Walpole, Mrs. Cargil,… | View record for #451 |
| 15 Oct 1785 | "Mrs. Jordan is accounted an excellent breeches figure, and has often played Patrick in the Poor Soldier, with infinite success, on the York… | View record for #453 |
| 22 Oct 1785 | "Miss Cranfield has been cast for the Colombine of Covent-Garden. In performing the character last night, she appeared as a butcher's boy, w… | View record for #456 |
| 29 Oct 1785 | Anecdote from "some years since" about "three high-bred women of fashion" at the Theatre Royal in Dublin who bring a new actress to tears an… | View record for #460 |
| 29 Nov 1785 | "Madame D'Eon, formerly the Chevalier, has since her arrival in London, been ushered into company by a gentleman" she seconded in a dueled, … | View record for #461 |
| 9 Dec 1785 | Mad. D'Eon and Empress of Russia are the same age and "two such heroines have never existed since the days of the Amazons!" | View record for #480 |
| 9 Dec 1785 | "The impostor in women's cloaths who goes by the name of Gore, and has lately been detected in Ireland, was some time ago in London, where h… | View record for #483 |
