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Fanny and Stella - The Young Men Who Shocked Victorian England (Paperback, Main): Neil McKenna Fanny and Stella - The Young Men Who Shocked Victorian England (Paperback, Main)
Neil McKenna
R401 R366 Discovery Miles 3 660 Save R35 (9%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

'Uproarious.' The Times 'Terrifically entertaining.' Evening Standard 'Irresistible.' Daily Mail 'Gripping.' Sunday Telegraph 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.

MAINSTREAM - An Anthology of Stories from the Edges (Paperback): Justin David, Nathanevans MAINSTREAM - An Anthology of Stories from the Edges (Paperback)
Justin David, Nathanevans; Kit De Waal, Paul McVeigh, Neil Bartlett, …
R306 R278 Discovery Miles 2 780 Save R28 (9%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days
The Secret Life of Oscar Wilde (Paperback, New ed): Neil McKenna The Secret Life of Oscar Wilde (Paperback, New ed)
Neil McKenna
R475 R437 Discovery Miles 4 370 Save R38 (8%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

'I have put my genius into my life but only my talent into my work'. So said Oscar Wilde of his remarkable life - a life more complex, more erotic, more troubled and more triumphant than any of his contemporaries ever knew or suspected. Neil McKenna's The Secret Life of Oscar Wilde charts fully for the first time Oscar's astonishing erotic odyssey through Victorian London's sexual underworld. Oscar Wilde emerges as a man driven personally and creatively by his powerful desires for sex with men, and Neil McKenna argues compellingly and convincingly that Oscar's Wilde's life and work can only be fully understood and appreciated in terms of his sexuality. The book draws of a vast range of sources, many of them previously unpublished, and includes startling new material like the statements made to the police by the male prostitutes and blackmailers ranged against Oscar Wilde at his trial which have been lost for over a century. Dazzlingly written, The Secret Life of Oscar Wilde meticulously and brilliantly reconstructs Oscar Wilde's emotional and sexual life, painting an astonishingly frank and vivid portrait of a troubled genius who chose to martyr himself for the cause of love between men.

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