Elinor M. Brent-Dyer, knowing that her "Juniors" were "Jacobite to the core", wrote them a romance of the English Civil War, Elizabeth the Gallant. I'll blog it properly later, but this amused me no end.

In order to disguise herself as her Cavalier brother, "Very reluctantly, Tibby fetched the barber's shears and helped the girl to clip the black curls to the nape of her neck." (p. 40 of the Girls Gone By edition).

and the pictures from the 1950s edition.



Ah, historical novels. So much a product of their time, even down to the permisable length of a man's hair.