Juliet Jacques   Syndicate contentRSS  Reviewed: Fanny & Stella
- The Young Men in Women’s Clothes  Neil McKenna’s book revisits
one of Victorian Britain’s most explosive trials.  Fanny and
Stella. Fanny and Stella.   The Charge of Personating Women
Yesterday afternoon the Bow-street Police-court and its
approaches were literally besieged by the public, owing to the
re-examination of the two young men, Ernest Boulton aged 22 of
43, Shirland-road, Paddington, and Frederick William Park, aged
23, of 13, Bruton-street, Berkeley-square, under remand upon the
charge of wearing women’s clothes, at the Strand Theatre … for a
supposed felonious purpose.  The prisoners appeared in male
apparel on this occasion, much to the disappointment,
apparently, of the crowds assembled to see them. The case
excited unusual interest, probably owing to the notoriety
acquired by certain young men who, for years past, have been in
the habit of visiting places of public resort in female attire,
and who have occasionally been turned o