Details
Title M’Dougald, Elizabeth, b. 1796.
Alternate title Elizabeth M'Dougald.
Publisher [Providence? : s.n.]
Date [1834?]
Physical description 1 print : engraving ; 8.8 x 8.2 cm.
Description Full-length portrait of Mrs. Elizabeth M’Dougald in a natural setting. She is depicted “in the guise of a Scottish Highlander,” wearing a highland dress and a Scottish bonnet with feathers, and holding two shotguns. --P. 18.
Notes In M’Dougald, Elizabeth. The Life, travels, and extraordinary adventures of Elizabeth M’Dougald (Providence, 1834), [1].
"Thus attired I commenced my pursuit after the destroyer of my happiness, -- once the idol that I worshiped”.
Elizabeth M’Dougald was a Scottish woman who was abandoned by her husband for another woman. With murderous intentions she pursued him by crossing the Atlantic, traveling throughout Canada and the United States, and enlisting in the Army.
Genre Portrait prints -- 1830-1839.
Engravings -- 1830-1839.
Subject M’Dougald, Elizabeth, b. 1796 -- Portraits.
Women.
Women writers.
Women soldiers.
Cross-dressing
Gender non-conforming people.
Gender-nonconforming people.
Queer history.
Related resource http://www.librarycompany.org/extraordinarywoman/uniform.htm