Miss Vesta Tilley Male LGBT Impersonator Actress Old Hand Signed Photo Postcard

PFAS202  This is an original antique hand signed postcard for historic turn of the century cross dressing entertainer Miss Vesta Tilley who has personally autographed the souvenir where her signature rests perfectly accompanying her portrait with some age fading around borders otherwise is truly excellent unused condition and her autograph is undedicated too.

Matilda Alice Powles, Lady de Frece was an English music hall performer. She adopted the stage name Vesta Tilley and became one of the best-known male impersonators of her era. Her career lasted from 1869 until 1920.By the 1890s, Tilley was England's highest earning woman. She was also a star in the vaudeville circuit in the United States, touring a total of six times. She married Walter de Frece, a theatre impresario who became her new manager and songwriter. At a Royal Command Performance in 1912, she scandalised Queen Mary because she was wearing trousers. During the First World War she was known as "Englands greatest recruiting sergeant" since she sang patriotic songs dressed in khaki fatigues like a soldier and promoted enlistment drives.