English labourer and gender dissident Catherine Tozer was BOTD in 1834. Little is known of her life, and most of her story comes from an essay by Victorian novelist Charles Reade, the accuracy of which has been disputed by historians. According to Reade, Tozer was married to Tom Coombes, living in poverty because of his inability to find work. After inheriting ten pounds from her aunt, she began to dress in men’s clothes, passing herself off as Coombes’ nephew Fred. They continued to live together as “Tom and Fred”, working as house painters. Tozer later fell in love with a woman named Nelly Smith, persuading her to elope and live in a mènage-a-trois with her and Tom. Nelly’s horrified parents sent the police after her. After breaking down the Coombes’ door, the police found Tom smoking a pipe and reading his newspaper while Tozer and Nelly were having sex on the sofa. Tozer was arrested and put on trial on undisclosed charges. After her release from custody, she renamed herself Charlie Wilson and lived as a man for nearly 50 years, forming a long-term partnership with Anne Ridgeway. In 1897, an elderly and destitute Tozer went to a police station and begged for admission to a country poorhouse, eventually admitting that she was female. The case whetted Reade’s appetite, who interviewed Tozer and wrote a fictionalised account of her life in an essay titled Androgynism; or, Woman Playing at Man, published by The English Review in 1911. Tozer died in 1914, apparently penniless and alone, aged 80.