Madam Belle : sex, money, and influence in a Southern brothel
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Madam Belle : sex, money, and influence in a Southern brothel
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ISBN:
9780813147062
Physical Description:
pages cm
Contents:
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.
Summary:
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
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