In
Ludovico Ariosto's Orlando Furioso, Bradamante, being a knight, wears
full-plate armor; similarly, Britomart wears full-plate armor in Edmund
Spenser's The Faerie Queene. Intentionally or not, this disguises them
as men, and they are taken as such by other characters.
In
Orlando Furioso, Fiordespina falls in love with Bradamante; her brother
Ricciardetto disguises himself as his sister, dressing as a woman,
persuades Fiordespina that he is Bradamante, magically changed into a
man to make their love possible, and in his female attire is able to
conduct a love affair with her.
In
Giannina Braschi's mock diary, "Intimate Diary of Solitude/el diario
intimo de la soledad" (the finale of the Latin American trilogy "Empire
of Dreams/el imperio de los suenos") the heroine Mariquita Samper is a
cross-dressing Macy's makeup artist who plots a literary revolution to
kill the narrator.
In
Arcadia, Sir Philip Sidney has one of the heroes, Pyrocles, disguise
himself as an Amazon called Zelmane in order to approach his beloved
Philoclea.
Lord
Byron in his Don Juan, had Don Juan disguised as a woman in a harem.
Mark
Twain's Huckleberry Finn disguises himself as a girl at one point in
the novel, not very successfully.
In
Anthony Powell's From a View to a Death, Major Fosdick's penchant for
going to his room and donning a black sequin evening dress and a large
picture-hat ultimately leads to his unraveling.
In
Terry Pratchett's novel Monstrous Regiment, he has an entire regiment
of females (of assorted species) dressing as males to join the army,
satirizing the phenomenon of crossdressing during wartime.
In
Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, Éowyn disguises herself as man under
the name Dernhelm to fight in the Battle of the Pelennor Fields outside
the city Minas Tirith.
In
Tamora Pierce's Song of the Lioness series, the main character, Alanna,
disguises herself as a boy for eight years in order to become a knight.
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The Masqueraders, by Georgette Heyer (1928); historical novel. Two
siblings impersonate the opposite gender to escape persecution after
the 1745 Jacobite Rising.
The Famous Five book series (1942) - Georgiana wears boy's clothes,
prefers to be called "George" and is pleased to be mistaken for a boy.
The Rose of Versailles (1972) - The female protagonist, Oscar François
de Jarjayes, dresses as a man, but privately acknowledges her feminine
side.
Johnny, My Friend (a translation of the Swedish novel Janne, min vän
from 1985) - Johnny is a girl disguising as a boy.
Song of the Lioness - The main character, Alanna, disguises herself as
a boy to become a knight.
Soldier's Secret - A fictional retelling of Deborah Sampson's life, who
disguises herself as a soldier during the Revolutionary War.
Hana Kimi - A Japanese Manga, where the female protagonist, Ashiya
Mizuki disguises herself as a boy to attend an all-boys school where
her idol Sano Izumi attends.
Boy2Girl by Terence Blacker - Sam, the main character Matthew's male
American cousin, is dared to go to school disguised as a girl as a
challenge to prove himself to Matthew and his friends. However, the
prank doesn't turn out the way it was planned.
The Merchant of Venice (c1657) a play by William Shakespeare in which
Portia dresses as a man in order to defend Antonio against Shylock's
suit for the 'pound of flesh' he is owed as forfeiture for failing to
repay a debt in time.
As a minor plot element
Charlotte Brontë Jane Eyre (1847) - Mr Rochester dresses as a Gypsy woman.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884) - Huckleberry dresses as a girl
and calls himself Sarah Williams.
The Two Towers (of The Lord of the Rings) (1954) - Éowyn disguises as
the man Dernhelm and travels with the Riders of Rohan to the Battle of
the Pelennor Fields.
To the Hilt (1996), a crime novel by Dick Francis. The protagonist
hires a young private detective who is skilled in disguise, mainly
disguising himself as a woman.
The Wind in the Willows (1908) by Kenneth Grahame - Toad escapes from
prison dressed as a washerwoman.
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