Remember our
Cocks in Frocks competition? And remember the winner...
Miss Cocks in Frocks?
Now let's have a look at
Fanny and Stella: a couple of "He-She Ladies" who could give all of you laydeez a run for your money.
Stella rests her head on her beloved Fanny’s breast.
Mistress MJ is currently reading "
Fanny & Stella: The Young Men Who Shocked Victorian England" by Neil McKenna. See review
here.
By day, Ernest "Stella" Boulton and Frederick "Fanny" Park were, respectively, a bank clerk and a solicitor. By night, they were part-time actresses and part-time prostitutes.
Arrested in the Strand Theatre whilst dressed as their alter egos, Fanny and Stella were accused of “conspiring and inciting persons to commit an unnatural offence”. I think you can read between the lines to know what
that means.
Their trial shocked the nation as every detail of Fanny and Stella's lives were dragged into the public eye. Their frocks and undergarments were paraded through the courtroom as evidence. They were required to submit to humiliating, intimate physical examinations for signs of sodomy by no less than six doctors. If they did not go free, they would face a lifetime of penal servitude.
Reading this book is like peering through a keyhole onto another world and time.
Pick it up and enjoy a lively and gripping account of two men dressed as women whose camp excesses scandalized a nation.
But enough about what
I'm reading. What are
you reading, Bitches?