@article {Bertrandias:July 2009:1474-8932:138, author = "Bertrandias, Bernadette", title = "Charlotte's Transvestites", journal = "Bronte Studies", volume = "34", year = "July 2009", abstract = "Patricia Beer's view of the significance of costume in Charlotte Brontë's novels points the way to a further analysis of the representations of ambivalent gender identity, and even of the staging of a recurring masquerade, in which woman's aspirations to develop a masculine persona are projected; but while the masks allow the secret dream of androgyny to surface, they also confirm its limited, if not altogether delusory nature.", pages = "138-146(9)", url = "http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/maney/bst/2009/00000034/00000002/art00006" doi = "doi:10.1179/147489309X431539" }