12 Great Summer Poolside Reads

From: Queerty

Fanny And Stella: The Young Men Who Shocked Victorian England 

by 

Neil McKenna

In April 1870, Thomas Ernest Boulton and Frederick William Park were arrested outside the Strand Theatre in London for dressing up as women. Now, Neil McKenna’s meticulously researched Fanny and Stella offers and in-depth look at what was one of most widely-attended, most sensational trials of Victorian England. With a cast of peers, politicians, prostitutes, drag queens, doctors ,and detectives, Fanny and Stella exposes the startling underbelly of 19-century London that is both tragic and comic and impossible to put down.