Cross-dressing in literature

Mr. Rochester disguised as a Gypsy woman sitting at the fireplace. Illustration by F. H. Townsend in the second edition of Charlotte Brontë's 1847 novel *Jane Eyre*.

Cross-dressing as a literary motif is well attested in older literature but is becoming increasingly popular in modern literature as well.^[1] It is often associated with character nonconformity and sexuality rather than gender identity.^[2]

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^ Craft-Fairchild, Catherine (1998-01-01). "Cross-Dressing and the Novel: Women Warriors and Domestic Femininity". Eighteenth-Century Fiction. 10 (2): 171–202. doi:10.1353/ecf.1998.0007. ISSN 1911-0243. S2CID 162232302.

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[:0-2] Craft-Fairchild, Catherine (1998-01-01). "Cross-Dressing and the Novel: Women Warriors and Domestic Femininity". Eighteenth-Century Fiction. 10 (2): 171–202. doi:10.1353/ecf.1998.0007. ISSN 1911-0243. S2CID 162232302.

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