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and settling of Mr Roberts’s bill, 1
Gladwell, Arthur, 1
Gollan, Detective Officer Roderick, 1, 2, 3
gonorrhoea, 1
Graham, Fanny Winifred see Park, Fanny Winifred
Graphic (newspaper), 1
Greenwood, James, 1
Greenwood, John, 1, 2
H—, Betsey see Betsey H—
Hagen, Catherine, 1, 2
Hagen, Oliver, 1
hairstyles, 1
Hammond, Charles, 1
Hampshire Advertiser, 1
Hampshire Telegraph and Sussex Chronicle, 1
Harvey, Dr Alfred, 1, 2, 3
Haweis, Mrs H.R.: The Art of Beauty, 1
Haxell, Edward Nelson, 1, 2
Haxell’s Hotel, West Strand:
ball, 1, 2;
incorporated into Strand Palace Hotel, 1
Haymarket, London, 1
Heath, Sir Robert, 1, 2
Henry, Sir Thomas, 1
hermaphrodites, 1
Hewitt, Frank, 1
Highbury Barn see drag balls
homosexual:
as term, 1
houses of accommodation, 1
House of Correction see Coldbath Fields, House of Correction
Hughes, Dr William, 1, 2
Hulme, Manchester, 1
Hurt, Louis:
on Stella’s mincing walk, 1;
courts Stella, 1, 2, 3;
invites Stella to Edinburgh, 1, 2;
background and character, 1;
on Stella’s feminine appearance, 1, 2;
and arrest of Stella and Fanny, 1;
devotion to Stella, 1;
visits police, 1;
arrested and confined in Newgate, 1, 2;
charges of sodomy withdrawn, 1;
trial, 1, 2;
Mrs Boulton testifies about, 1;
later career and death, 1
Illustrated London News, 1
Illustrated Police News, 1, 2, 3, 4
Jim, John Jameson, 1, 2
Johnson, Dr Henry James, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;
Gonorrhoea and Its Consequences, 1
Johnston, Betsy, 1
Johnston, Malcolm (’the Maid of Athens’), 1, 2, 3533
Jones, Lieutenant (friend of Lord Arthur Clinton), 1
Karslake, Sir John, 1
Kay, William, 1
Kean, James, 1
Kerley, Detective Sergeant Frederick, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Kersey, Benjamin, 1
Lancet (journal), 1, 2, 3
Layton, George, 1
Le Gros Clark, Dr Frederick, 1, 2
Leopold, Prince: birth, 1
Lesmahagow, Lanarkshire see Abbey Green
Lewis, Mr George:
acts for Fanny and Stella, 1;
character and style, 1;
and Martha Stacey, 1;
advises Stella’s mother as witness, 1;
later career and knighthood, 1
Lewis, Mr (chief clerk in bank), 1
Littlechild, Inspector, 1
Liverpool Mercury, 1
Lives of Boulton and Park: Extraordinary Revelations (pamphlet), 1
London and County Bank, Islington, 1
London Lock Hospital, 1
Lord Chief Justice see Cockburn, Sir Alexander (Lord Chief Justice)
Lyceum Theatre, London, 1
Martin, Bennett, 1
masturbation, 1
Mayne, Sir Richard (Metropolitan Police Commissioner), 1
Medical Times and Gazette, 1
Metropolitan Police: special branch and surveillance, 1
Motley, John Lothrop, 1, 2
Mullin, Judge Joseph, 1
Munby, Arthur, 1
Mundell, Hugh:
at Strand Theatre, 1, 2, 3;
accompanies Fanny and Stella to police station, 1, 2, 3;
meets Fanny and Stella, 1;
appears in Bow Street Magistrates’ Court, 1, 2;
on bond between Fanny and Stella, 1;
as chief prosecution witness, 1, 2, 3;
later career as chiropodist, 1
Munro, Louis:
as Stella’s leading man, 1;
takes up with Carlotta Gibbings, 1
New York, 1
New York Clipper (newspaper), 1
Newcastle, Henry Pelham Alexander Pelham-Clinton, 1th Duke of, 2
Newcastle, Henry Pelham Archibald Pelham-Clinton, 1th Duke of, 2
Newgate Gaol, 1, 2, 3
Newlyn, Sambrooke, 1
Norris, Isabella, 1
Northern Echo, 1
Nottingham Daily Guardian, 1
Observer (newspaper), 1
Ortner, Houle & Co., Messrs, 1
Ouvry, Mr (solicitor), 1
Pall Mall Gazette, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Paris: cross-dressers, 1
Park, Judge Alexander (Fanny’s father), 1, 2, 3, 4
Park, Lieut. Atherton Allan (Fanny’s brother), 1, 2
Park, Fanny Winifred:
at Strand Theatre, 1, 2, 3;
appearance and dress, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7;
arrested, 1, 2;
gives name as Frederick William Park, 1;
Mundell meets, 1;
appears before Bow Street magistrate and charged, 1;
remanded in custody, 1;
examined by Dr Paul, 1, 2;
family background and upbringing, 1;
character and looks, 1, 2, 3;
effeminacy, 1, 2;
home schooled, 1;
liking for men, 1;
articled to solicitor, 1, 2;
behaviour and manner, 1;
acting, 1, 2, 3;
Stella’s view of, 1;
early sexual experience, 1;
pretends to widowhood, 1;
friendship with Stella, 1, 2;
second court appearance, 1;
drag wardrobe and accoutrements, 1;
hair care, 1;
beard problem, 1;
testimonies and evidence against, 1, 2;
absences from Gepp & Sons (solicitors), 1, 2;
at Stella’s Southampton Street lodgings with Lord Arthur, 1, 2;
and Stella’s relations with Lord Arthur, 1;
hopes for marriage to Lord Arthur, 1;
correspondence and confidences with Lord Arthur, 1;
at Miss Empson’s in Davies Street, 1, 2, 3;
Lord Arthur sleeps with, 1, 2;
reconciliation with Stella, 1;
treated for syphilis, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7;
trial before Lord Chief Justice, 1, 2, 3, 4;
in Newgate Gaol, 1, 2, 3;
medically examined in prison, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;
femininity of body, 1;
supposed hermaphroditism, 1, 2;
relations with Carlotta Gibbings, 1;
attends Carlotta’s ball, 1, 2;
released on bail, 1, 2;
charges of sodomy withdrawn, 1;
grows beard, 1;
criminal charges, 1;
letters to Lord Arthur read out in court, 1;
under police surveillance, 1;
in Mrs Boulton’s testimony, 1;
and father’s death, 1;
acting in America as ’Fred Fenton’, 1;
death from syphilis, 1;
estate and will, 1
Park, Harry (Fanny’s brother):
and Fanny’s home life, 1;
sexual relations with men, 1, 2;
arrested and absconds to Scotland, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;
bond with Fanny, 1;
in Edinburgh, 1;
propensity for working men, 1;
prospective arrest, 1;
lies low (as Charles Ferguson) in Abbey Green, Lanarkshire, 1, 2;
sexual adventures in London, 1;
letter to Stella, 1, 2;
rearrested by Thompson, 1;
and sentenced to twelve months’ hard labour, 1, 2;
and father’s death, 1
Park, Frederick William see Park, Fanny Winifred
Park, Lucy (Fanny’s sister), 1, 2, 3
Parry, Mr Sergeant, 1, 2, 3, 4
Paul, Dr James Thomas:
duties as police surgeon, 1;
examines Fanny and Stella, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6;
interest in sodomy, 1, 2, 3, 4;
studies under Alfred Swaine Taylor, 1;
gives evidence and cross-examined at trial, 1, 2, 3, 4;
later career and death, 1
Pavitt, Charles, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Pearl, The: a Monthly Journal of Facetiae and Voluptuous Reading, 1
Peck, Louisa, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Peel, Percival, 1
Pelham-Clinton, Lord Arthur:
Stella’s relations with, 1, 2, 3, 4;
theatrical interests, 1;
engagement to Miss Matthews collapses, 1;
financial difficulties, 1, 2, 3;
offers to provide catering for Stella’s coming–of–age party, 1;
comes between Stella and Fanny, 1;
Fanny hopes to marry, 1;
visits Scarborough with Stella, 1, 2, 3;
and Stella’s moods and demands, 1;
correspondence and confidences with Fanny, 1;
lodges at Miss Empson’s in Davies Street, 1, 2;
sleeps with Fanny, 1, 2;
confirms Stella is a man, 1;
and Stella’s dalliance with Captain Cox, 1;
with Stella at Carlotta’s ball, 1;
arrest delayed, 1;
disappearance and reported death and burial, 1, 2, 3;
letters from Fanny read out in court, 1;
Mrs Boulton approves of, 1;
reported reappearances in New York and Australia, 1;
question of death unsolved, 1
Penny Illustrated, 1
Poland, Mr (prosecuting attorney), 1, 2, 3
Pollard, William (Assistant Treasury Solicitor), 1, 2, 3, 4
Porcupine (journal), 1, 2
prostitutes, male:
prevalence, 1;
payments for, 1;
marry, 1;
relations with police, 1;
blackmailed, 1
prostitution: in Britain, 1
Queensberry, John Sholto Douglas, 1th Marquis of, 2
Reeve, John, 1, 2, 3
Reeve, Wybert, 1
Reynolds’s Newspaper, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
Richards, Mr & Mrs (of Dulwich), 1, 2
Ricord, Philippe, 1, 2
Rimmel, Eugene, 1
Roberts, George, 1
Roberts, W.H., 1, 2, 3, 4
Rochester, John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of: Sodom, 1
Royal Alhambra Palace, Leicester Square, 1, 2
Sarah (whore), 1
Sarony, Napoleon, 1
Sarony, Oliver, 1
Saturday Review, 1, 2
Saul, Jack:
earnings as prostitute, 1;
on attraction to men of cross-dressers, 1;
observes Stella and Lord Arthur at Carlotta’s ball, 1;
in Cleveland Street scandal (1890), 1;
The Sins of the Cities of the Plain, 1, 2
Scarborough: social life, 1;
Stella and Lord Arthur visit, 1
Scarborough Gazette and Weekly List of Visitors, 1, 2
Scott, Eliza (or Elijah), 1
Seward, William H., 1
Seymour, William Digby:
defends Stella at trial, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
Shelly, Mr (manager of Surrey Theatre), 1
Sherlock, Thomas, Bishop of London, 1
Shillingford, Police Constable Thomas, 1, 2
Sidebottom, Alexander, 1
Sinclair, Donald, 1, 2, 3
Sinclair, Robbie, 1, 2
’Sissy’ see Thomas, Cecil
Sloggett, William Henry, 1
Smith, George, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Sneaking Regard, A (burlesque farce), 1
Sodomy (buggery):
as criminal offence, 1;
medical evidence and experience of, 1, 2, 3, 4;
between men and women, 1;
penalty for, 1;
and syphilis, 1, 2;
defined, 1, 2;
seen as social evil, 1, 2;
as issue in Fanny and Stella trial, 1, 2
Solomon, Simeon, 1, 2, 3
Somerville, Dr, 1
Somerville, William, 1, 2, 3
Sothern, Edward Askew, 1
Southampton Street, London:
Stella and Lord Arthur lodge in, 1;
Stella and Lord Arthur leave, 1
Stacey, Frances (Martha’s niece), 1, 2
Stacey, Martha, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Stacey, Mrs (Martha’s mother), 1, 2
Stella see Boulton, Stella
Stock, Essex see Theatre Royal
Straight, Mr (defence lawyer), 1, 2, 3, 4
Strand Theatre, London, 1, 2, 3, 4
Surrey Theatre, London, 1, 2
Swinburne, Algernon Charles, 1
syphilis, 1, 2;
feared, 1
Talbot, James Beard, 1
Tardieu, Ambroise, 1, 2;
Étude médico-légale sur les attentats aux moeurs, 1, 2, 3
Taylor, Dr Alfred Swaine, 46, 200, 204, 207;
A Manual of Medical Jurisprudence, 1
Teague, Inspector, 1
Theakston, Solomon Wilkinson, 1, 2, 3
Theakston’s Guide to Scarborough, 1
Theatre Royal, Stock, Essex, 1
Thomas, Cecil (‘Sissy’):
at Strand Theatre, 1, 2, 3;
friendship with Stella, 1;
Inspector Thomas pursues, 1;
tried in absentia, 1, 2;
later career, 1
Thompson, Inspector James:
and arrest of Fanny and Stella, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;
overwhelmed with testimonies, 1, 2, 3;
and Fiske’s status as Consul, 1;
requests search of Fiske’s premises in Edinburgh, 1;
and disappearance of Lord Arthur, 1, 2, 3;
travels to Scotland to apprehend Harry Park, 1, 2;
and Fanny and Stella’s lying-low on bail, 1;
payments to George Smith, 1;
meets Dr Paul before arrest of Fanny and Stella, 1;
conspires to bring charges, 1, 2;
retirement and death, 1
Times, The, 1
Toole, J.L. (actor), 1
Tottenham, 1
Treasury: payments to witnesses and police officers, 1
Tristan, Flora, 1
Tyrwhitt, Mr (magistrate), 1
Vane-Tempest, Lady Susan, 1
Veyne, Dr François-Auguste, 1
Victoria, Queen, 1
Vincent, Howard, 1
Wakefield Street: house investigated by police, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Walker, Police Constable Charles, 1, 2, 3
‘Walter’: My Secret Life, 1
Warner, Henry B., 1
Weekly Times, 1, 2
Western Mail, 1
Westminster Hall, 1
White, Police Constable George, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
White, Mr (of Gresham Street), 1
Wight, Albert, 1
Wilde, Oscar, 1;
Lady Windermere’s Fan, 1
Wimpole Street, 1, 2
Yardley, Mr (magistrate), 1
Yokel’s Preceptor, The, 1, 2
29th April 1870: An excited crowd looks on as Ernest Boulton and Frederick Park in full drag leave Bow Street Magistrates’ Court the morning after their arrest at the Strand Theatre
‘And such a stock of togs was there.’ The police raid Fanny and Stella’s secret dressing-rooms in Wakefield Street and confiscate their entire drag wardrobe
Stella Boulton, ‘the most wonderful impersonator of female character ever before the public’ with ‘the most perfect soprano voice’, photographed in Scarborough in October, 1868
‘Rose of the Garden, blushing and gay’ – the c
aptivating Stella Boulton dressed as a man
Dressed in silk and suitably padded, bewigged and with a very generous application of paint, Fanny made a handsome woman
Fanny (left) – ‘a gabbling, good-natured, prattling, gossiping, charming young man’, photographed with an unknown gentleman in Chelmsford in 1868
Fanny, with her ‘sterner features’, had a natural bent for playing domineering duchesses and dowagers of a certain age
A love triangle: Fanny (standing) and Stella (front) with Lord Arthur Pelham-Clinton
Stella and Fanny dressed in character in the sort of drawing-room entertainment they toured to small country houses and market-town assembly rooms
Stella and Charles Pavitt on tour in Essex in 1869
The shocking case of ‘The Female Personators’ was front-page news all over the country
The Comical Countess and Carlotta Gibbings
Stella, now blonde, in New York circa 1875, taken by the celebrity photographer Napoleon Sarony.
Stella as a shepherdess of the golden age, circa 1880
Sisters. Side by side and shoulder to shoulder. Sisters for better or for worse: Stella rests her head on her beloved Fanny’s breast.
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