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Tipping the Velvet

Tipping the Velvet

by Sarah Waters
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This delicious, steamy debut novel chronicles the adventures of Nan King, who begins life as an oyster girl in the provincial seaside town of Whitstable and whose fortunes are forever changed when she falls in love with a cross-dressing music-hall singer named Miss Kitty Butler. When Kitty is called up to London for an engagement on "Grease Paint Avenue", Nan follows as her dresser and secret lover, and, soon after, dons trousers herself and joins the act. In time, Kitty breaks her heart, and Nan assumes the guise of butch roue to commence her own thrilling and varied sexual education - a sort of Moll Flanders in drag - finally finding friendship and true love in the most unexpected places.

Book Details

ISBN13 9781860495243
ISBN10 1860495249
Series/Work OL551012W View on OpenLibrary
Publisher Virago
Pages 472
Language ENG
Created At January 30, 2025
Updated At January 30, 2025
Last OL update January 18, 2025

Subjects

Cross-dressers England, fiction English drama English literature Female impersonators Fiction Fiction, historical Fiction, historical, general Fiction, lesbian Gay men History Identity Lambda Literary Awards Lambda Literary Award Winner Lesbians Lesbians, fiction LGBTQ historical fiction LGBTQ novels Music-halls (Variety-theaters, cabarets, etc.) Relations with lesbians

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