Fanny and Stella: The Young Men Who Shocked Victorian England
Allen & Unwin, $27.99 pb, 417 pp, 9780571302444
Gender
The war on sex
by Paul Morgan •
The trial of Frederick Park and Ernest Boulton in 1870 might have been designed for the media to whip up public outrage in a familiar mix of moral disapproval and prurient detail. As Neil McKenna’s Fanny and Stella reveals, this was indeed the intention of the British government of the day.
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