Buy this book on-line McKENNA, NEIL: : FANNY & STELLA: The Young Men Who Shocked Victorian EnglandLONDON.FABER and FABER LIMITED,2013. ISBN 9780571231904.
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28th April 1870.The flamboyantly dressed Miss Fanny Park and Miss Stella Boulton are causing a stir in the Strand Theatre.All eyes are riveted upon their lascivious oglings of the gentlemen in the stalls.Moments later they are led away by the police.What followed was a scandal that shocked and titillated Victorian England in equal measure.
The gripping story of the trial that shook Victorian England - a tale of cross-dressing, cross-examinations and the invention of camp. It turned out that the alluring Miss Fanny Park and Miss Stella Boulton were no ordinary young women.Far from it.In fact,they were young men who liked to dress as women: Frederick Park and Ernest Boulton,two young clerks,part-time actresses and part-time prostitutes.
Stella was the most beautiful female
impersonator of her day,Fanny her inseparable companion.When the Metropolitan Police launched a secret campaign to bring about their
downfall, they were arrested and subjected to a sensational show trial in Westminster Hall.If found guilty,they faced life imprisonment . . . As the trial of the 'Young Men in Women's Clothes' unfolded,Fanny and Stella's extraordinary lives as wives and daughters, actresses and whores were revealed to an incredulous public.
With a cast of peers,politicians and prostitutes,drag queens,doctors and detectives, Fanny and Stella is a Victorian peepshow, exposing the startling underbelly of nineteenth-century London.By turns tragic and comic, meticulously researched and dazzlingly written, 'Fanny and Stella' is an enthralling tour-de-force.llustrated with photographs and line-drawings.
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