IN BRIEF Angele Steidele In Männerkleidern. Biographie und Dokumentation. (In Men’s Attire: The remarkable life of Catharina Margaretha Linck alias Anastasius Lagrantinus Rosenstengl, hanged in 1721.) Böhlau Verlag September 2004, 250 pp. ISBN 3-412-16703-7 A remarkable life indeed and this book traces the story of Linck, a female transvestite who assumed male identity, taking the reader through the stages of her life: Pietist orphanage, wandering prophet with a dissenting sect, soldier in the Prussian army, skilled textile printer and button maker, marriage to a woman, economic dependency on the church, denunciation, imprisonment and execution. All this in 250 pages. A real eye-opener. Angele Steidele is German and lives in Cologne. She has published numerous articles, mainly on homosexuality in literature and was awarded the Gleim Literature Prize for In Männerkleidern, a prize awarded every second year for a work which substantially contributes to our understanding of the cultural history of the 18th century. Translation rights available from Böhlau Verlag GmbH Tel: +49 3643 851570 Email: harald.liehr@boehlau.de