Waters was working on her PhD thesis on historical lesbian fiction when her annoyance piqued at the failure of authours to exploit the genre's potential. She described it herself as a lesbo-Victorian romp, and it would go on to become a favourite of modern lesbian fiction. Published in 1998 by Virago Publishing in the UK and in 1999 by Riverhead Publishing in the US, Tipping the Velvet was Sarah Waters’s debut novel.
Tipping the Velvet was adapted by Andrew Davies and filmed by Sally Head Productions for the BBC."Tipping the velvet" was Victorian-era slang for cunnilingus, and once you know that, you understand the basic theme of the book. But as their relationship becomes passionately all-consuming, it threatens to be the ruin of all of Nan’s ambitions.Ī bawdy, vaudevillian delight of a novel, Tipping the Velvet launched the career of one of Britain's most exciting and successful writers, described as `one of the best storytellers alive today' by the Independent. At the same time, behind closed doors, they admit their attraction to each other and their affair begins. Soon after, she becomes Kitty's dresser and the two head for the bright lights of Leicester Square where they start an all-singing and dancing double act. Through a friend at the box office, Nan manages to visit all her shows and finally meet her heroine.
Nan is captivated by the music hall phenomenon that is Kitty Butler, a male impersonator extraordinaire treading the boards in Canterbury. Piercing the shadows of the naked stage was a single shaft of rosy limelight, and in the centre of this was a girl: the most marvellous girl – I knew it at once! – that I had ever seen.Ī saucy, sensuous and multi-layered historical romance, Tipping the Velvet follows the glittering career of Nan King – oyster girl turned music-hall star turned rent boy turned East End 'tom'.
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