Neil McKenna: Fanny and Stella by FaberBooks published on 2013-01-29T17:24:38Z Neil McKenna's rollicking and extremely colourful 'Fanny and Stella' is an account of the lives and loves of two effeminate cross-dressing young men whom Victorian society found every bit as shocking as Oscar Wilde (the subject of the author's previous award-winning biography). Like Wilde, Fanny and Stella found themselves on trial for the way they lived and, McKenna argues, like Wilde's trial a quarter of a century later, the trial of Fanny and Stella was a landmark in terms of attitudes to gender, sexuality and identity. Genre Books Comment by Abdul Sattar 5 Neil holds forth on his subject with oracular fluency, without in the least diluting the gravitas of how vulnerable and fragile the stereotypes of sexuality were in the nineteenth century. 2013-04-25T10:48:54Z