James Allen, The Female Husband
An Authentic Narrative of the Extraordinary Career of James Allen, The Female Husband
London: I. S. Thomas, 1829.
This anonymous account of the life and death of the “female husband” known as James Allen is somewhat sympathetic to its subject. Allen is referred to with masculine pronouns through most of the narrative, and hateful people who disrupted his funeral are described as “ignorant beings of the very lowest class.”
Allen, a sawyer, and his wife, Abigail, were married for 21 years when he was killed in a work-related accident. When Allen’s biological sex was discovered post-mortem, Abigail claimed never to have seen him naked.
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