Cross dressing in fiction and literature and history

[KellyT]

Manga is not to everyones taste but I just found this review of a manga book out now.


Boy Princess Volume 2

This is one of the hottest manhwa titles in Korea right now - and Korean manga is fast becoming one of the hottest parts of the mangaverse with readers. Boy Princess is an adorable story of a medieval prince called Nicole who disguises himself as a woman and married a neighbouring prince to save his kingdom, taking the place of his sister who has eloped with a stablekeeper at the last moment.

Naturally his deception does not go undiscovered for long, but then a romance of sorts develops between the seemingly cold, indifferent Prince Jed and naïve Nicole, as Nicole realises that 'brotherly love' may mean something very different to what he thought!

Netcomics, paperback, 176 pages, published April 2006

Anybody else got other examples of books or literature with crossdressing as a main theme.

In Scotland here, everyone knows the real life historical story of Bonnie Prince Charlie fleeing the battlefield at Culloden and then dressing as Flora Macdonalds maid and sailing "o'er the sea to Skye" to escape from the the Duke of Cumberland and his Hanovarian troops.

[Aileen]

The only actual book with a crossdressing theme I've ever read is "The Jessica Project."

FROM THE PUBLISHER
Jesse Barrett, assassin-for-hire, is coerced by federal agents into making a terrible choice: go to prison, or help them seize billions of dollars of laundered drug profits while disguised as a woman. Seduced by a beautiful stranger, he wakes up in her hotel room to find himself dressed in a nightgown, with all his clothes and identification missing. Will Barrett cooperate with Kristin Fox, the special agent who trapped him? When Barrett reluctantly agrees, Kristin prepares him to go undercover against the Juarez cartel. Although she prefers women, Kristin becomes attracted to her creation, convincing herself that his transformation is the cause. While Barrett plots his escape, their relationship becomes physical. Until the mission goes dreadfully wrong. As the action races across three continents to a stunning confrontation on the brink of Iguazu Falls, The Jessica Project explores the possibility that love might help a person reinvent himself or herself.