Woman's Queer Masquerade

The story of a woman's strange life comes from Chelsea, Eng., where an inmate of the workhouse has confessed to having lived fifty years as a man without being discovered. She is now seventy-five years old, and tells of this with a lively exultation in the adventure. She assumed the guise of a man because she thought that with it she could earn her living more easily. She was married at the age of sixteen, after being well educated, and immediately left her husband, disliking his treatment of her. She worked as a painter and decorator.

--Thousandsticks, Middlesboro, Kentucky, March 30, 1911, page 7.