'The Female Husband' is So Eighteenth Century:

'Henry Fielding’s novel, a fictional account of the life of Charles Hamilton, conflates vagrancy with sexual, gender, and religious deviance.'

Livia Gershon at JSTOR Daily.

"Literary scholar Sarah Nicolazzo argues that Fielding’s book provides a window into eighteenth-century views of both gender and vagrancy.

"In Fielding’s telling, Nicolazzo writes, [Mary] Hamilton 'was a virtuous young woman until seduced into both Sapphism and Methodism by an older friend.' Hamilton then begins dressing as a man, becomes a Methodist preacher in Ireland, and seduces and marries a wealthy widow. After being discovered, Hamilton adopts the persona of a doctor and repeats the process in two other places with two other women."

See Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling, in Great Books of the Western World (first edition, 54 Vol., 1952) volume 37