FANNY AND STELLA: YOUNG MEN WHO SHOCKED VICTORIAN ENGLAND
Book ID/图书代码: 04560012B56476
English Summary/英文概要: 28th April 1870. The flamboyantly dressed Miss Fanny Park and Miss Stella Boulton are causing a stir in the Strand Theatre. All eyes are riveted upon their lascivious oglings of the gentlemen in the stalls. Moments later they are led away by the police. What followed was a scandal that shocked and titillated Victorian England in equal measure.
It turned out that the alluring Miss Fanny Park and Miss Stella Boulton were no ordinary young women. Far from it. In fact, they were young men who liked to dress as women. When the Metropolitan Police launched a secret campaign to bring about their downfall, they were arrested and subjected to a sensational show trial in Westminster Hall.
As the trial of ’the Young Men in Women’s Clothes’ unfolded, Fanny and Stella’s extraordinary lives as wives and daughters, actresses and whores were revealed to an incredulous public.
With a cast of peers, politicians and prostitutes, drag queens, doctors and detectives, Fanny and Stella is a Victorian peepshow, exposing the startling underbelly of nineteenth-century London. By turns tragic and comic, meticulously researched and dazzlingly written, Fanny and Stella is an enthralling tour-de-force.
Chinese Summary/中文概要: 1870年4月28日,穿著耀眼的范尼•帕克小姐和斯黛拉•博爾頓小姐在位於英國倫敦中部的斯德蘭德劇院引起了轟動。所有的目光都聚焦於這兩位座落在劇場內花枝招展的兩位紳士身上。過了一會兒他們被警方帶離現場。隨之而來的便是英國維多利亞時代最為震驚醜聞事件。原來誘人的范尼•帕克小姐和斯黛拉•博爾頓小姐並不是普通的年輕女性。相反地,事實上,他們兩位是喜好打扮成女性的年輕男子。當倫敦警察展開的一項秘密運動導致了他們的行徑敗露時,他們當即被捕,在威斯敏斯特大廳遭到公開審判。隨著 ’青年男子身著女士服裝’ 所展開的審訊,范尼和斯黛拉為人妻兒和演員和娼妓的非凡人生被展露於持懷疑態度的公眾面前。伴隨着一群同道中人,政客和妓女、便裝皇后、 醫生和偵探,"范尼和斯黛拉"成為了維多利亞時代的折射鏡,揭露驚人十九世紀的倫敦驚人的內幕。人生悲喜交加,作者細緻地研究和華麗的筆觸,"范尼和斯黛拉"是一段迷人的力作。
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Awards/获奖情况:十九世紀維多利亞時期的斷臂/異裝之風十九世紀,當維多利亞女王仍舊為亡夫身著全黑喪服之時,只剩下她一人在哀悼之中。英國當時的社會正蠢蠢欲動,而年輕人紛紛發現當時的音樂廳,和劇院成為了當時的麥加朝聖之地;倫敦西區成為當時的民眾自由徜徉在娛樂世界的享樂之地。1870年4月28日的傍晚,馬車行駛至斯特蘭德劇院,身著閃亮綢緞晚禮服的漂亮的年輕人,引發了劇場內陣陣刺耳的笑聲和喊聲。這些人前來享受晚會的人們沒有絲毫意識到他們將成為現實生活中真正的焦點。
1870年4月28日,斯特拉•克林頓夫人和范妮•威妮弗雷德•帕克小姐 — — 也以歐尼斯特 • 博爾頓而聞名的這對偽娘 -,一位年齡在二十二歲的弗雷德里克•威廉姆•帕克,另一位年齡在二十三歲的法律系學生 — — 整晚身著女士連衣裙出現在倫敦的斯特蘭德劇院中。其實警方自1869年開始就盯上了這對偽娘了,雖然當時有超出他們範圍的異裝癖者逃脫了,但他們和另外一位男子亦被同時逮捕。所有這些男人都獨立的居所,但他們都一直居住在韋克菲爾德街的這所房子裏,從麗晶廣場,一到了晚上他們在出發前便會裝扮上,與他們有同樣癖好的朋友一起消磨時光。警方在搜查過程中列出了他們的庫存清單:即十六件鑲嵌着蕾絲的光滑綢緞裙子,一打襯裙,十個斗篷和夾克,半打女式緊身胸衣,幾頂女士軟帽,二十個女式假髮髻,和各式各樣的女士胸衣,襯褲,長筒襪,靴子,燙髮鉗,手套,粉餅盒和玫瑰花。房東描述他們的這些裝配已到“完美極致。”
About the Author/作者介绍: 尼爾•麥肯納是屢獲殊榮的記者和傳記作者。他是暢銷傳記《奧斯卡•王爾德的秘密生活》的作者,這部傳記開創性地記錄王爾德性取向和工作問題,贏得了英國和美國兩地的廣泛好評。
麥肯納曾為英國《獨立報》,《星期日獨立報》,《觀察家報》和《新政治家》雜誌撰寫文章。他是《家居廊》的前副主編,和英國第四頻道的編輯。他還為同性戀雜誌撰寫過許多文章,他因在英屬殖民地馬恩島發起過同性戀改革法案和領導反對第25條條款而聞名。
他近期完成的新作《范尼和斯黛拉》(將由費伯出版社於明年3月出版發行),講述了關於歐內斯特•博爾頓和弗雷德里克•帕克,這兩位喜歡便裝年輕人在1870年遭到逮捕後,在威斯敏斯特議會大廳接受審判的故事。
Award-winning journalist and former deputy editor of Elle Decoration, McKenna has also worked as an editor for Channel 4. Working extensively in the gay press he is known for initiating the campaign for gay law reform in the Isle of Man and leading the fight against Clause 25. He is the author of two ground-breaking books about male homosexuality and Aids in the developing world: On the Margins (1996) and The Silent Epidemic (1998). His debut biography, The Secret Life of Oscar Wilde, was published in 2003 to wide acclaim.
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