Ebook {Epub PDF} Fanny and Stella: The Young Men Who Shocked Victorian England by Neil McKenna

‘Fanny Stella: The Young Men Who Shocked Victorian England’ by Neil McKenna. Author: Cheryl Morgan. March 3, When we think of Victorian England we tend to assume a moral code that was as tightly laced as the corsets into which women forced themselves. Surely there can have been no room for outrageous campness in such a www.doorway.ruted Reading Time: 8 mins.  · 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 www.doorway.ru: Faber and Faber. Fanny and Stella tells the story of two male cross-dressers in mid Victorian England and their arrest and trial on charges of sodomy. As well as an engrossing tale, Fanny and Stella is a fine indictment on Victorian morality and the sexual mores of the 19th century, and a rare and vivid glimpse into an underground homosexual subculture/5().

Title: Fanny Stella: The young men who shocked Victorian England Author: Neil McKenna Publisher: Faber Published: (2nd edition) Pages: Format: Paperback. This book was purchased as part of GCLL's 30 Days of Books campaign for Pride Month , sponsored by a kind donation. Fanny and Stella: The Young Men Who Shocked Victorian England - in pictures In Neil McKenna's latest book, Fanny and Stella, he tells how two young men who liked to dress as women were feted about town - and ended up as the subjects of a sensational show trial. Fanny and Stella: The young men who shocked Victorian England ON the evening of Ap, two fancily dressed playgoers were arrested as they left London's Strand Theatre.

Neil McKenna’s new biography, Fanny Stella, helpfully subtitled The Young Men Who Shocked Victorian England, least anyone remain ignorant of the degree of gender bending going on here, tells the story of the two most flamboyant members of Victorian London’s gay scene. Sodomy was illegal in the London of By using first-hand accounts McKenna brings in a lot of interesting details about the Victorian’s viewpoint of sex and male love. He draws you into a world that goes against expectation. Fanny and Stella shows that underneath the quiet respectability of Victorian morals there was sex- a lot of it. Fanny and Stella: The Young Men Who Shocked Victorian England by Neil McKenna – review. A world of 'lush longing for embroidered handkerchiefs and soft kisses' is interrupted by a police.