Tag Archive: Fanny and Stella

Mar 07

How crossdresser was accepted in Victorian Edinburgh – A review of Fanny & Stella in The Scotsman

  The following review was published in The Scotsman on Wednesday 6 March 2013 WITH petticoats swishing the ground, blonde tresses artfully curled beneath a bonnet and a small bustle giving the fashionable figure of the day, Stella Boulton’s appearance on Princes Street turned heads. But not all the gasps and curious stares were perhaps for …

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Feb 04

Drag, kissing and screaming – Review in HeraldScotland

Here, author Neil McKenna reveals the story at the centre of his new book, a tragic tale of love, lust and betrayal which scandalised society and led to a court case in which two transvestites and suspected homosexuals had their private lives laid bare Fanny And Stella: The Young Men Who Shocked Victorian England By …

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