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London, April 1870: Fanny and Stella were no ordinary Victorian women. They were young men who liked to dress as women: Frederick Park and Ernest Boulton. Stella was the most beautiful female impersonator of her day, Fanny her inseparable companion.
But the Metropolitan Police were plotting their downfall. Fanny and Stella were arrested and subjected to a sensational trial where every lascivious detail of their lives was lapped up by the public.
With a cast of peers and politicians, detectives and drag queens,
Fanny and Stella is a dazzling and enthralling story of cross examinations, cross-dressing and the the birth of camp.
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HistoryTable of contents
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Plates
- Acknowledgements
- Epigraph
- 1: Leading Ladies
- 2: The Hapless Swain
- 3: The Slap-Bum Polka
- 4: In the Dock
- 5: Foreign Bodies
- 6: Wives and Daughters
- 7: Becoming Fanny
- 8: A Tale of Two Sisters
- 9: Monstrous Erections
- 10: A Dirty Business
- 11: Getting Up Evidence
- 12: A Victorian Romance
- 13: Lord Arthur’s Wife
- 14: The Toast of the Town
- 15: ‘Yr Affectionate Fanny’
- 16: The Dragon of Davies Street
- 17: ‘Come Love’
- 18: Un Souvenir d’Amour
- 19: The Battle of the Bottoms
- 20: He, She or It
- 21: A Bitches’ Ball
- 22: The Wheels of Justice
- 23: Dead or Disappeared
- 24: This Slippery Sod
- 25: ‘Pestiferous and Pestilential’
- 26: The Ship of State
- 27: The Most Sensational Event
- 28: A Rout
- 29: ‘This Terrible Drama of Vice’
- 30: Clouds and Sunshine
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Index
- Plates
- About the Author
- Copyright
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