Bobbie Kimber (hardback)

<p>The Bobbie Kimber story is a fascinating one involving the art of ventriloquism female impersonation and gender variance. It is the story of a man who became a prominent British Music Hall performer from the late 1930s onwards displaying his skill as a ventriloquist with various dummies most notably Augustus Peabody or Gussie while all the time dressed as a woman. He never made a secret of his masculinity but he never emphasized it and as a result there were many in the audience and in the press who assumed he really was female. Gradually he assumed the identify of a woman dressing in female attire both on and off stage and even claimed to have had a sex change operation which was a complete lie. In the later years of his life Bobbie Kimber always appeared as a woman with long hair make-up and high heels. His stage persona had become his real persona. Bobbie Kimber surely represents the strangest example of gender variance. </p><p><br></p><p><br></p>