Cases have been recorded of inverted women who spent the greater part of their lives in men’s clothing and been generally regarded as men.  I may cite the case of Lucy Ann Slater, alias the Rev. Joseph Lobdell, recorded by Wise (Alienist and Neurologist, 1883).  She was masculine in character, features, and attire.  In early life she married and had a child, but had no affection for her husband, who eventually left her.  As usual in such cases, her masculine habits appeared in early childhood.  She was expert with the rifle, lived the life of a trapper and hunter among the Indians, and was known as the “Female Hunter of Long Eddy.”  She published a book regarding those experiences.  I have not been able to see it, but it is said to be quaint and well written.  She regarded herself as practically a man, and became attached to a young woman of good education, who had also been deserted by her husband.  The affection was strong and emotional, and, of course, without deception.  It was interrupted by her recognition and imprisonment as a vagabond, but on the petition of her “wife” she was released.  “I may be a woman in one sense,” she said, “but I have peculiar organs which make me more a man than a woman.”  She alluded to an enlarged clitoris which she could erect, she said, as a turtle protrudes its head, but there was no question of its use in coitus.  She was ultimately brought to the asylum with paroxysmal attacks of exaltation and erotomania (without self-abuse apparently) and corresponding periods of depression, and she died with progressive dementia.  I may also mention the case (briefly recorded in the Lancet, February 22, 1884) of a person called John Coulter, who was employed for twelve years as a laborer by the Belfast Harbor Commissioners.  When death resulted from injuries caused in falling down stairs, it was found that this person was a woman.  She was fifty years of age, and had apparently spent the greater part of her life as a man.  When employed in early life as a manservant on a farm, she had married her mistress’s daughter.  The pair were married for twenty-nine years, but during the last six years lived apart, owing to the “husband’s” dissipated habits.  No one ever suspected her sex.  She was of masculine appearance and good muscular development.  The “wife” took charge of the body and buried it.

A more recent case of the same kind is that of “Murray Hall,” who died in New York in 1901.  Her real name was Mary Anderson, and she was born at Govan, in Scotland.  Early left an orphan, on the death of her only brother she put on his clothes and went to Edinburgh, working as a man.  Her secret was discovered during an illness, and she finally went to America, where she lived as a man for thirty years, making money, and becoming somewhat notorious as a Tammany politician, a rather riotous “man about town.”  The secret was not discovered till her death, when it was a complete revelation, even to her adopted