In this second part of our two part story about the lives of AMAB femmes, Fanny and Stella, we dive into the trial that shocked Victorian England, its outcome, and what became of the bold Stella and Fanny in the remainder of their lives.

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1 Fanny and Stella enter the Bow Street jail
2 Fanny and Stella in court
3 illustration of Coldbath Fields Prison

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In the first episode of our second season, Megan shares the story of Fanny and Stella: two gender non-conforming young people from Victorian England who presented female (and sometimes male) while carousing the exciting streets of 1860s/70s London. That is, until their antics got them in hot water with the law in what would be one of the most significant trials in British queer history. In this first part of our two part episode we learn about their lives leading up to their arrest.

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1 #FannyandStella
2 Fanny #FrederickPark (right) and #ErnestBoulton as Fanny and Stella, 1869
3 Stella and Fanny (back right, holding mallets), dressed in character for the drawing-room entertainments they toured to small country houses and market-town assembly rooms
4 Park, in male attire, 1868
5 Fanny
6 Stella
7 Boulton, in male attire, 1875
8 #BurlingtonArcade, 1870s
9 Park (standing) and Boulton (on the floor) with Clinton, c. 1869
10 John Safford Fiske

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