The prevailing knowledge of 18th-century Europe is that flute-playing was an activity strictly for the male half of the population. Yet a 6-volume score printed between 1733 and ? contains not only voice and keyboard, but flute parts. In Scotland at this time there were several female flutists. In Germany at this time, we know that Mariane Ziegler--contemporary of J.S. Bach--played the transverse flute. Were there also female flutists in England?