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Lädt ... Madam Belle : sex, money, and influence in a Southern brothel (2014. Auflage)von Maryjean Wall
Werk-InformationenMadam Belle: Sex, Money, and Influence in a Southern Brothel (Topics in Kentucky History) von Maryjean Wall
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. Probably of most interest to people who are familiar with the Bluegrass region. While Belle Brezing's story is interesting in itself, this book is more interesting as a study of Lexington from the antebellum period into the 20th century. There's some fascinating material about the evolution of the horse racing industry and the beginnings of social progressivism around the turn of the century. As academic history goes, it's also very accessible and a quick read. ( ) keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
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. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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Google Books — Lädt ... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)306.74092Social sciences Social Sciences; Sociology and anthropology Culture and Institutions Relations between the sexes, sexualities, love Sex work Biography And History BiographyKlassifikation der Library of Congress [LCC] (USA)BewertungDurchschnitt:
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