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'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.
'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of them previously unpublished, and includes startling new material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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