Watercolour drawing

Malcolm Scott, dubbed 'The Woman Who Knows', was a music hall performer who specialised in female impersonations. Like all the pantomime dames of the late19th and early 20th century, his stage character was always resolutely a man in skirts rather than a man trying to be overtly glamorous or outrageous. Two of his best known characters were extravagantly dressed however including Elizabeth I and her step-mother, Katharine Parr, Henry VIII's last wife. Other characters included a grotesque 'Mrs John Bull' the typical Englishwoman.