Fanny and Stella (48 page)

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’.

28 A Rout

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.

29 ‘This Terrible Drama of Vice’

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.

30 Clouds and Sunshine

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 prostitute),
  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