![]() It’s like I never saw anything at all before. “When I see her,” I said, “it’s like – I don’t know what it’s like. Very touching, I thought, and very sweetly innocent. This is how she describes her feelings about Kitty. Soon she becomes obsessed with her and willingly leaves her loving family to follow Kitty around and be her dresser, and soon her partner. Nancy realizes her sexual orientation when she first spots Kitty on stage. However, Tipping the Velvet is proudly lesbian. The original book is heterosexual for the most part, I assume. Now, I haven’t read the original Moll Flanders (a classic and steamy novel by Daniel Defoe that chronicles the sexy exploits of one Moll Flanders). It first attracted my attention when the book blurb described it as a Sapphic Moll Flanders. Tipping the Velvet is epic gay historical fiction. 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. 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. ![]() 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. ![]()
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