Fanny and Stella : the young men who shocked Victorian England / by Neil McKenna.
Material type:
TextPublisher: London : Faber and Faber, 2014Description: xv, 396 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 20 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780571231911
- 0571231918
- Fanny & Stella [Cover title]
- Boulton, Ernest, 1848-1904
- Park, Frederick William, approximately 1848-1881
- Boulton, Ernest, 1848-1904
- Park, Frederick William, approximately 1848-1881
- 1800-1899
- Cross-dressers -- England -- London
- Cross-dressing -- England -- London -- History -- 19th century
- Female impersonators -- England -- London
- Cross-dressers
- Cross-dressing
- Female impersonators
- Manners and customs
- Family and Relationships
- London (England) -- Social life and customs -- 19th century
- England -- London
- 306.7780922 MCK 23
- HQ77.2.G7 M155 2014
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Standard Loan | LSAD Library Main Collection | 306.7780922 MCK (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Checked out | 03/05/2021 | 39002100643551 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
The gripping story of the trial that shook Victorian England - a tale of cross-dressing, cross-examinations and the invention of camp.
Includes index.
Originally published in 2013.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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. 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. 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. 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.