by Neil McKenna
302 ‘If every roué ’ – Extraordinary Revelations.
303 ‘crush and spoil’ – Opening speech of Mr Digby Seymour, Trial.
303 ‘thoroughly’ – Trial testimony of William Kay.
304 ‘A thrill’ – Daily Telegraph, 13 May 1871.
306 ‘the most sensational’ – Daily Telegraph, 10 May 1871.
306 ‘roars of laughter’ – ibid.
307 ‘Do you think’ – ibid.
308 ‘acquitted’ – Solomon to Swinburne, 15 May 1871, in LeBourgeois, ‘Swinburne and Simeon Solomon’.
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309 ‘The conception’ – The Times, 25 July 1871.
311 ‘What is that book’ – Trial testimony of Dr James Paul.
313 ‘Just attend to me’ – ibid.
314 ‘any Magistrate’s order’ – ibid.
315 ‘You should be more careful’ – ibid.
315 ‘getting up evidence’ – Deposition of George Smith.
316 ‘pay him’ – Trial testimony of George Smith.
316 ‘a situation’ – The Times, 14 May 1870.
316 ‘I have watched them’ – Daily Telegraph, 30 April 1870.
317 ‘the unemployed’ – Letter Book of the Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, MEPO 1/48, The National Archives.
317 ‘Maladministration’ – ibid.
317 ‘Mr Bradlaugh’ – ibid.
317 ‘young Mr Boulton’ – Opening address of Mr Digby Seymour, Trial.
319 ‘679 – Dec 1870’ – Treasury Solicitor’s Account Books, TS 40 14, The National Archives.
319 ‘492 – Dec 1870’ – ibid.
320 ‘rewards’ – Opening speech of Mr Digby Seymour, Trial.
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321 ‘She watches’ – Fanny Fales (Mrs Frances Elizabeth Swift), Voices of the Heart (Boston, 1853).
322 ‘own beloved Child’ – Mary Ann Boulton to Ernest Boulton, Letters.
322 ‘wanted strength’ – ibid.
322 ‘Are you the mother’ – Trial testimony of Mary Ann Boulton.
322 ‘Exactly so’ – ibid.
324 ‘a retentive memory’ – ibid.
326 ‘Ernest has been’ – ibid.
328 ‘We know as a fact’ – Closing speech of Mr Digby Seymour, Trial.
328 ‘a friend’ – Trial testimony of Mary Ann Boulton.
330 ‘nothing indecent’ – Closing speech of Mr Digby Seymour, Trial.
330 ‘My son sent me’ – Trial testimony of Mary Ann Boulton.
331 ‘You would expect’ – Closing speech of Mr Digby Seymour, Trial.
‘Ernest Boulton’ – ibid.
331 ‘vile and wicked’ – ibid.
332 ‘Dr Paul’ – ibid.
332 ‘morbidly sensible’ – Opening address of Mr Digby Seymour, Trial.
332 ‘the most exquisite torture’ – ibid.
332 ‘Surely, Gentlemen’ – Closing speech of Mr Digby Seymour, Trial.
334 ‘capable of plunging’ – ibid.
335 ‘Gentlemen’ – Lloyd’s Weekly Newspaper, 21 May 1871.
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336 ‘Rose of the garden’ – Fricker, ‘Fading Away’.
336 ‘MR ERNEST BOULTON’ – Reynolds’s Newspaper, 6 August 1871, quoting from the Era, late July 1871.
337 ‘his Drawing-Room Entertainment’ – Liverpool Mercury, 14 November/21 November 1871.
337 ‘Mr Boulton displayed’ – Liverpool Mercury, 9 September 1873.
338 ‘PORTLAND HALL’ – Hampshire Telegraph and Sussex Chronicle, 29 May 1872.
338 ‘The beauty’ – Hampshire Telegraph and Sussex Chronicle, 5 June 1872.
339 ‘This so-called’ – Hampshire Advertiser, 15 June 1872.
339 ‘notoriety’ – Birmingham Daily Post, 17 June 1872.
339 ‘Beams of the morning’ – Fricker, ‘Fading Away’.
340 ‘the impudence’ – Pall Mall Gazette, 18 October 1873.
341 ‘comedian’ – New York Clipper, 9 April 1881.
341 ‘Ernest Byne’ – New York Clipper, 11 April 1874.
341 ‘Two gentlemen’ – ibid.
342 ‘ERNEST BYNE, pronounced’ – New York Clipper, 25 April 1874.
342 ‘Your airs’ – quoted in Laurence Senelick, The Changing Room: Sex, Drag and Theatre (London, 2000).
343 ‘Lord Arthur Clinton’ – Reynolds’s Newspaper, 20 October 1872.
343 ‘at the Installation’ – Morning Post, 30 January 1878.
343 ‘My Lord Arthur Clinton’ – Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New South Wales Advertiser, 25 February 1879.
344 ‘Elegant Parisian Clothes’ – Era, 24 June 1877.
344 ‘Songs, Eccentricities’ – Era, 10 March 1878.
344 ‘a most marvellous’ – Era, 24 June 1877.
344 ‘The Bynes are’ – Era, 22 July 1877.
344 ‘AN INDIGNANT NONCONFORMIST’ – Western Mail, 14 April 1879.
344 ‘actor’ – Census of 1881.
344 ‘Spring’s fairest blossoms’ – Fricker, ‘Fading Away’.
346 ‘How dare you’ – Evening Standard, 2 May 1870.
346 ‘N’importe’ – Frederick Park to Lord Arthur Clinton, 21 November 1868, Letters.
346 ‘I give, devise’ – Last Will and Testament of Frederick William Park, 17 July 1878.
347 ‘Song of the wild-bird’ – Fricker, ‘Fading Away’.
347 ‘Society absurdity’ – Era, 22 December 1891.
348 ‘The performer’ – Era, 13 June 1891.
348 ‘The Brothers Blair’ – Belfast News-Letter, 13 June 1896.
350 ‘Hope’s fairy promise’ – Fricker, ‘Fading Away’.
350 ‘But there’s a land’ – ibid.
Epilogue
354 ‘a professional Mary-Ann’ – Statements of Jack Saul to Inspector Abberline.
354 ‘Lord Euston’ – ibid.
354 ‘uttering a fictitious cheque’ – Hampshire Telegraph and Sussex Chronicle, 25 January 1873.
354 ‘congestion’ – Death certificate of Amos Westropp Gibbings, 29 March 1890.
355 ‘I invented’ – Oscar Wilde to the Editor of the Pall Mall Gazette, 1 October 1894, in Merlin Holland and Rupert Hart-Davis, The Complete Letters of Oscar Wilde (London, 2000).
357 ‘For I’ve got a Peep-Show’ – C. J. Pavitt, ‘I’ve Got a Peep-Show’ (c.1875).
357 ‘allowed any cloud ’ – Trial testimony of Mary Ann Boulton.
358 ‘large and beautiful garden’ – unsigned autobiographical essay by John Safford Fiske, History of the Class of 1863 Yale College (New Haven, Connecticut, 1905), in Jonathan Ned Katz, Love Stories: Sex Between Men Before Homosexuality (Chicago, 2001).
358 ‘passed through his hands’ – Wirksworth Parish Magazine, October 1936, in Derek Wain, The Hurts of Derbyshire (Ashbourne, Derbyshire, 2002).
359 ‘my uncle’ – Will of the Most Noble Henry Pelham Archibald Douglas Duke of Newcastle, 1927.
359 ‘His charming manner’ – Hampshire Chronicle, 19 February 1940.
Index
Abberline, Inspector, 1
Abbey Green, Lanarkshire, 1, 2
Abrams (solicitor):
acts for Fanny and Stella, 1, 2, 3, 4;
advises Hurt and Fiske, 1, 2
Acton, William, 1
Alhambra see Royal Alhambra Palace
Allingham, William, 1
anal sex see sodomy
Anniss, Inspector Silas, 1
Attenborough, Mr (pawnbroker), 1
Attorney-General see Collier, Sir Robert
Barker, Emily, 1
Barwell, Dr Richard:
examines and treats Fanny for syphilis, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6;
gives evidence at trial, 1, 2;
later career and death, 1
Batson, Mary, 1, 2, 3
Beeton, Isabella and Samuel, 1
Belfast News-Letter, 1
Betsey H— (male prosti
tute), 1
Blair, Ernest and Eden (stage names of Stella and Gerard Boulton), 1
Boulton, Gerard (Stella’s brother):
birth and childhood, 1, 2;
and Lord Arthur Clinton, 1;
partners Stella as leading man, 1, 2, 3;
in America, 1;
returns to England, 1;
adopts name Eden Blair, 1, 2;
marriage and son, 1;
with Stella at death, 1;
manages theatre in Winchester and death (1940), 1
Boulton, Mary Ann (Stella’s mother):
character and qualities, 1;
marriage, 1;
and Stella’s dressing up as child, 1;
decline in fortunes, 1;
and Stella’s poor health, 1, 2, 3;
encourages Louis Hurt’s interest in Stella, 1, 2, 3;
and Stella’s friends, 1;
and Stella’s relations with Lord Arthur Clinton, 1, 2, 3;
and Stella’s arrests, 1, 2;
Louis Hurt offers support to, 1;
testifies at Stella’s trial, 1, 2, 3;
death, 1
Boulton, Ernest see Boulton, Stella
Boulton, Stella:
appearance and dress, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6;
at Strand Theatre, 1;
arrested (1870), 1;
gives name as Ernest Boulton, 1;
Mundell meets and falls for, 1;
appears before Bow Street magistrate and charged, 1;
remanded in custody, 1;
examined by Dr Paul, 1, 2, 3;
birth and childhood, 1;
singing, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9;
dressing up as girl, 1;
acting ambitions and performances, 1, 2, 3, 4;
banking career, 1;
attractive to men, 1;
friendship with Fanny, 1, 2, 3;
second court appearance, 1;
drag wardrobe and accoutrements, 1;
operation for fistula, 1, 2, 3;
earlier arrests, 1, 2;
acts in Oxford with Cumming, 1;
earnings from prostitution, 1;
testimonies and evidence against, 1;
Louis Hurt courts, 1, 2;
relations with Lord Arthur Clinton, 1, 2, 3;
coming-of-age party (1867), 1;
shares lodgings with Lord Arthur, 1, 2;
character and behaviour, 1, 2;
stage appearance in Scarborough, 1, 2;
writes notes to Lord Arthur, 1;
stays with Lord Arthur at Miss Empson’s in Davies Street, 1, 2;
and Lord Arthur’s infidelity with Fanny, 1, 2;
letter from Fiske, 1, 2;
reconciliation with Fanny, 1;
in Edinburgh, 1, 2;
in Newgate Gaol, 1, 2, 3;
medically examined in prison, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;
feminine appearance of body, 1, 2;
supposed hermaphroditism, 1;
dalliance with Captain Cox, 1;
attends Carlotta’s ball, 1, 2, 3;
released on bail, 1, 2;
trial before Lord Chief Justice, 1, 2, 3, 4;
charges of sodomy withdrawn, 1;
grows moustache, 1;
criminal charges, 1;
under police surveillance, 1;
mother testifies for at trial, 1, 2;
found not guilty, 1;
resumes theatrical career after acquittal, 1, 2;
changes name to Ernest Byne and moves to America, 1;
returns to England, 1;
as Ernest Blair, 1;
male admirers in later years, 1;
final illness, death and burial, 1, 2
Boulton, Thomas (Stella’s father):
marriage, 1;
business reverses, 1, 2;
and Lord Arthur Clinton, 1;
Stella’s arrest, 1;
Louis Hurt offers support to, 1;
absent from Stella’s trial, 1
Bow Street Magistrates’ Court, 1, 2, 3, 4
Bow Street Police Station, 1, 2, 3
Bradford, William, Governor of New England, 1
Bradlaugh, Charles, 1
Britain: social problems and change, 1
brothels, male, 1
Brown, Isaac Baker, 1
Brown, Colonel T. Allston, 1
Bruce, Henry, 1
Bryan, Alfred, 1
buggery see sodomy
Burlington Arcade, Piccadilly, 1, 2, 3, 4
Byne, Ernest (stage name of Boulton, Stella) see Boulton, Stella
Byron, George Gordon, 1th Baron: ‘Don Leon’, 2
Byron, H.J.: One Hundred Thousand Pounds (play), 1
Caminada, Detective Sergeant Jerome, 1
Campbell, George, 1
Campbell (‘Lady Jane Grey’), 1, 2
Carden, Sir Robert, 1
Carlotta see Gibbings, Amos Westropp
Caroline, Madame, 1
Carroll, Lewis: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, 1
Casper, Dr Johann Ludwig, 1, 2
Castlehaven, Mervin Touchet, 1nd Earl of, 2, 3
Challis, John, 1
Chamberlain, Detective Officer William:
and arrest of Fanny and Stella, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;
calls at Martha Stacey’s house, 1, 2, 3, 4;
testifies against Fanny and Stella, 1, 2;
and medical examination of Fanny and Stella, 1;
admits to surveillance of Fanny and Stella, 1;
payments to, 1;
retires from Metropolitan police and becomes private detective, 1
Charing Cross Hospital: Fanny attends for anal syphilis, 1
chirruping, 1
chloroform, 1
Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New South Wales Advertiser, 1
Clark, Eliza, 1, 2, 3
Coldbath Fields, House of Correction, 1
Cleveland Street Scandal (1890), 1
Clinton, Lord Arthur see Pelham–Clinton, Lord Arthur
Clinton, Lord Thomas, 1
Clutterbuck, Dr, 1
Cockburn Sir Alexander (Lord Chief Justice), 1
Coke, Sir Edward, 1
Collette, Charles Hastings (The Society for the Suppression of Vice), 1
Collier, Sir Robert (Attorney–General):
prosecutes Fanny and Stella, 1, 2, 3, 4;
calls witnesses, 1;
on Home Secretary’s interest in trial, 1
Colton, Eleanor, 1
Cox, Captain Francis Kegan, 1, 2
Cox, Jane, 1
Creer, Edwin, 1
Cumming, Martin Luther (‘the Comical Countess’):
uses Wakefield Street house, 1, 2;
friendship with Fanny, 1, 2;
arrested with Stella, 1, 2, 3;
acting, 1, 2;
attends Carlotta’s ball, 1;
Inspector Thomas pursues, 1;
tried in absence, 1;
appearance, 1;
last sighting in Brussels, 1
Daily Telegraph, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11
Daly, Anthony, 1
Darwin, Charles, 1
Davies Street, London, 1, 2, 3
Departmental Committee on Prisons, 1
D’Eyncourt, Mr (magistrate), 1
Dibdin, Acting Sergeant Edwin, 1, 2
Dickens, Charles:
on Surrey Theatre, 1;
Hard Times, 1
Dickson, Mrs Agnes, 1, 2, 3
Doig, John, 1
Druid’s Hall, City of London, 1
Drag balls, 1
Drysdale, George, 1;
The Elements of Social Science, 1
Dublin Castle Scandal (1884), 1
Duffin, Hannah, 1
Duffin, Maria (later George), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Dunton, John: The He-Strumpets, 1
Edinburgh, 1, 2, 3
Edward, Prince of Wales:
at Strand Theatre, 1;
visits Scarborough, 1;
in Mordaunt
divorce case, 1
Edwards, Eliza, 1, 2, 3, 4
Edwards, Maria, 1
Empson, Ann, 1, 2, 3, 4
Englishwoman’s Domestic Magazine, The, 1, 2
Era (theatrical newspaper), 1, 2
Essex Herald, 1
Euston, Henry James FitzRoy, Earl of, 1
Evening News, 1
Extraordinary Revelations see Lives of Boulton and Park, The: Extraordinary Revelations (anonymous pamphlet), 1
Fair Eliza (male prostitute), 1
Fanny see Park, Fanny Winifred
Farrer, Mrs Thomasin, 1
Farrier, Police Constable, 1
Fenians, 1, 2
Fenton, Fred see Park, Fanny Winifred
Ferguson, Charles see Park, Harry
Fiske, John Safford:
in Edinburgh, 1, 2, 3;
background and career, 1;
infatuation with Stella, 1;
and Louis Hurt, 1;
letters to Stella in police hands, 1;
visits London to explain relations with Stella, 1;
premises searched by police, 1, 2;
arrested and held in Newgate, 1, 2;
charges of sodomy withdrawn, 1;
trial, 1, 2, 3;
Simeon Solomon describes, 1;
retirement to Italy and death, 1
Flowers, James, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
France: cross-dressers, 1
George, Maria see Duffin, Maria
Gepp and Sons (Chelmsford solicitors), 1, 2
Gibbings, Amos Westropp (‘Carlotta’):
meets Mundell, 1;
uses Martha Stacey’s Wakefield Street house of accommodation, 1, 2, 3;
removes incriminating matter from Wakefield Street, 1, 2, 3;
takes men’s clothes to police station for Fanny and Stella, 1;
engages solicitor for Fanny and Stella, 1;
friendship with Fanny, 1;
hosts ball at Haxell’s Hotel, 1, 2, 3, 4;
relations with Fanny, 1;
appearance, 1;
friendship with Sissy Thomas, 1;
supposedly finances Fanny and Stella’s defence, 1;
tours with Louis Munro, 1;
death, 1
Gibson, Dr John Rowland, 1, 2
Gladstone, William Ewart:
on Duchess of Manchester, 1;
as godfather, guardian and political patron of Lord Arthur, 1;
