favored Lucy as a marine and respected her. Comrade: Exclaimed to Lucy, “ never mind it, George, you have already won laurels sufficient to recommend you to the pretty girls, when you return to port!’’ Maria Murray: Known by sailors as “Scotch Maria” Lived in the brothel with Lucy Brewer in west Boston hill Isabella: Thirty-four-year-old harlot, mother of five children and had been twice lawfully married. Spent two years as a kept miss, and four years as a common prostitute on the Hill. Captivated the attention of a seventeen-year-old boy, leading him to his death. William: A seventeen-year-old boy who was captivated with Isabella (the harlot). Died from a sexually transmitted disease shortly after falling victim to his imprudent indulgences. Charles West: Lucy refers to him at William when first acquainted. He confesses his affection for Lucy and soon figures out that Lucy is the same woman who portrayed a U.S. Marine in the circulated pamphlets. He signs off “Your sincere well-wisher” and accepts Lucy's cross-dressing. Maria D___: was one of the fairest and sweetest girls Lucy has ever known, but married a man incapable of providing a nurturing a loving marriage. She became a miserable housewife, and he broke his vows and began sleeping with harlots in Boston. She lived in a perpetual winter, fell into depression and died. Mrs. Grey: Wife of a very honest and respectable farmer in New Hampshire was forced to join a brothel after getting lost in Boston when visiting her sister in Boston. She could not return to her family because she felt she was no longer respectable as a woman. Controversial authorship According to Daniel A. Cohen, editor of The Female Marine and Related Works: Narratives of Cross-Dressing and Urban Vice in America's Early Republic, the true author of The Female Marine was probably Nathaniel Hill Wright. Wright was a young Massachusetts writer acquainted with Nathaniel Coverly, the printer of The Female Marine. Cohen writes: "At the time of the first appearance of The Female Marine, Nathaniel Hill Wright was in his late twenties, a family man with a wife and at least one small child, evidently struggling to make ends meet. While none of this proves that Wright was the author of the female-marine narratives, his political affiliation, sexual history [his wife bore a child sixth months after their marriage], literary predilections, self-characterization, and personal circumstances – along with the