Cross-Dressers
Janet Todd, 8 December 1988
The Cavalry Maiden: Journals of a Female Russian Officer in the Napoleonic Wars
by Nadezhda Durova, translated by Mary Fleming Zirin.
Angel, 242 pp., £12.95, May 1988,0 946162 35 2 Show More
by Nadezhda Durova, translated by Mary Fleming Zirin.
Angel, 242 pp., £12.95, May 1988,
Isabelle: The Life of Isabelle Eberhardt
by Annette Kobak.
Chatto, 258 pp., £15, May 1988,0 7011 2773 2 Show More
by Annette Kobak.
Chatto, 258 pp., £15, May 1988,
Vagabond
by Isabelle Eberhardt, translated by Annette Kobak.
Hogarth, 160 pp., £4.95, May 1988,0 7012 0823 6 Show More
by Isabelle Eberhardt, translated by Annette Kobak.
Hogarth, 160 pp., £4.95, May 1988,
“... culturally-aware young lady. The theatrical literary quality emerges clearly from the accounts of Nadezhda Durova, a soldier in the Russian wars against Napoleon, known after her initial sortie, by the Tsar at least, to be a woman, although she insisted she was unknown to others, and Isabelle Eberhardt, another Russian from Geneva, who dressed in male ... ”
