Early cross-dressing performers Vesta Tilley and Hetty King real photo postcard archive, circa 1903-1906, recording the public circulation of female-to-male cross-dressed performance during the Edwardian music hall period. Tilley, born Matilda Alice Powles in Worcester in 1864, became Britain’s most famous male impersonator, appearing as soldiers, dandies, clerks, young swells.....