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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Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lexington, Kentucky :
University Press of Kentucky,
[2014]
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.