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Contributor Elton, Robert H., engraver.
Title Stephens, Ellen.
Alternate title Mrs. Ellen Stephens : who, in pursuit of her husband and child, garbed as a male served in the capacity of a cabin boy, eight months on board of the Mississippi river steamboats, in 1841 and 1842 / Elton.
Publisher [New York : s.n.]
Date [1842?]
Physical description 1 print : engraving ; 14.8 x 9.0 cm.
Description Three-quarter length portrait of the woman wearing a dress with leg-of-mutton sleeves, with her head down-turned, in tears.
Notes In The afflicted and deserted wife, or, Singular and surprising adventures of Mrs. Ellen Stephens (New York, 1842), frontispiece.
Mrs. Ellen Stephens is probably a fictitious character.
Genre Engravings -- 1840-1849.
Portrait prints -- 1840-1849.
Subject Stephens, Ellen -- Portraits.
Fictitious characters.
Women sailors.
Gender non-conforming people
Gender-nonconforming people.
Queer history.
Cross-dressing.
Related resource http://librarycompany.org/crossdressing/section2.htm