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Könyv Madam Belle Maryjean Wall

Madam Belle

Sex, Money, and Influence in a Southern Brothel

Szerző: Maryjean Wall
Nyelv: Angol
Kötés: Puha kötésű
Kiadó: The University Press of Kentucky
Elérhetőség: Beszállítói készleten
Küldés 14-21 napon belül
9 255 Ft
Belle Brezing made a major career move when she stepped off the streets of Lexington, Kentucky, and...

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Szerző
Maryjean Wall
Nyelv
Angol
Kötés
Könyv - Puha kötésű
Kiadva
2016
oldal
226
EAN
9780813168449
ISBN
0813168449
Enbook ID
11031433
Kiadó
The University Press of Kentucky
Súly
346
Méretek
229 x 155 x 16

Teljes leírás

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 in the Gilded Age South, as told through the life and times of the notorious Miss Belle. After years on the streets and working for Hill, Belle Brezing borrowed enough money to set up her own establishment-her wealth and fame growing alongside the booming popularity of horse racing. Soon, her houses were known internationally, and powerful patrons from the industrial cities of the Northeast courted her in the lavish parlors of her gilt-and-mirror mansion. Secrecy was a moral code in the sequestered demimonde of prostitution in Victorian America, so little has been written about the Southern madam credited with inspiring the character Belle Watling in Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind. Following Brezing from her birth amid the ruins of the Civil War to the height of her scarlet fame and beyond, Wall uses her story to explore a wider world of sex, business, politics, and power. The result is a scintillating tale that is as enthralling as any fiction.

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