...Katie Hindmarch-Watson Duke University Press 2007 Lois Schwich, the Female Errand Boy Narratives of Female Cross-Dressing in Late-Victorian London Katie Hindmarch-Watson On November 13, 1886, twenty-one-year-old Lois Schwich was sentenced to eight months’ hard labor...

... research explores the history of sexuality and cultural production in nineteenth-century Britain and North America. “Lois Schwich, the Female Errand Boy” is a revised version of her master’s thesis, held at the University of Manchester. Janice M. Irvine teaches...