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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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Wall, Maryjean
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Lexington, Kentucky : University Press of Kentucky, [2014]
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
Brezing, Belle, > 1860-1940.
Prostitutes.
Brothels.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Prostitution & Sex Trade.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Social Scientists & Psychologists.
Maisons de prostitution > Kentucky > Lexington.
Prostituees > Kentucky > Lexington > Biographies.
Brothels > Kentucky > Lexington.
Prostitutes > Kentucky > Lexington > Biography.
Kentucky > Lexington.
Biographies.
Biography
Electronic book.
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
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Résumé: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
Description matérielle:1 online resource (226 pages).
ISBN:9780813147086

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