Madam Belle : sex, money, and influence in a Southern brothel /

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Belle Brezing made a major career move when she stepped off the streets of Lexington, Kentucky, and into Jennie Hill''s bawdy house -- an upscale brothel run out of a former residence of Mary Todd Lincoln. At nineteen, Brezing was already infamous as a youth steeped in death, sex, drugs, a...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Wall, Maryjean
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lexington, Kentucky : University Press of Kentucky, [2014]
Temas:
Brezing, Belle, > 1860-1940.
Brezing, Belle, > 1860-1940
Prostitutes > Kentucky > Lexington > Biography.
Brothels > Kentucky > Lexington.
Prostituées > Kentucky > Lexington > Biographies.
Maisons de prostitution > Kentucky > Lexington.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Social Scientists & Psychologists.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Prostitution & Sex Trade.
Brothels
Prostitutes
Kentucky > Lexington
Biography
Biographies
Biographies.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:Belle Brezing made a major career move when she stepped off the streets of Lexington, Kentucky, and into Jennie Hill''s bawdy house -- an upscale brothel run out of a former residence of Mary Todd Lincoln. At nineteen, Brezing was already infamous as a youth steeped in death, sex, drugs, and scandal. But it was in Miss Hill''s ""respectable"" establishment that she began to acquire the skills, manners, and business contacts that allowed her to ascend to power and influence as an internationally known madam. In this revealing book, Maryjean Wall offers a tantalizing true story of vice and power
Descripción Física:1 online resource
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780813147086
0813147085
1322046182
9781322046181
9780813147079
0813147077

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