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Madam Belle - Sex, Money, and Influence in a Southern Brothel (Paperback)
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Madam Belle - Sex, Money, and Influence in a Southern Brothel (Paperback)
Series: Topics in Kentucky History
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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, 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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