Fanny and Stella: The Young Men Who Shocked Victorian England - Rilegato

Neil McKenna

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ISBN 10: 057123190X ISBN 13: 9780571231904

Casa editrice: Faber and Faber, 2013

Riassunto

28th April 1870. Fanny and Stella, 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, 'Boulton and Park' 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.

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Recensione:

'Neil McKenna explains in this rich and absorbing book ... one of the most extraordinary legal drama of the Victorian age: the trial of Ernest Boulton and Frederick Park for sodomy... [He] has done a tremendous job of recreating Victorian London's gay sub-culture, weaving [...] a jolly and rollicking narrative. It would be an understatement to call it a colourful book... Fanny and Stella is a cracking read...' --Dominic Sandbrook, The Sunday Times

'Neil McKenna's wonderful Fanny and Stella [is] a new history of the sensational trial of Ernest Boulton and Frederick William Park ... It's a gripping and shocking account, frequently tragic, but ultimately triumphant' --Sam Jordison, Guardian

'A terrifically entertaining story. Neil McKenna has thrown himself into it with unfettered glee.' --John Preston, London Evening Standard

Descrizione del libro:

Fanny and Stella, by Neil McKenna, is the gripping story of the trial that shook Victorian England - a tale of cross-dressing, cross-examinations and the invention of camp.

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• Editore: Faber and Faber
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• ISBN 10: 057123190X
• ISBN 13: 9780571231904
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 416