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Madam Belle : Sex, Money, and Influence in a Southern Brothel /

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
Autor principal: Wall, Maryjean
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lexington, Kentucky : University Press of Kentucky, [2014]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • The elegant Miss Belle
  • Civil war and home war
  • A troubled youth
  • A businesswoman whose business is men
  • Networks of power
  • A wealthy benefactor
  • Lexington's exclusive mansion for men
  • A uniquely powerful woman in a changing city
  • Crackdown on vice
  • A growing moral menace
  • The passing of a legend.