Madam Belle: Sex, Money, and Influence in a Southern Brothel by Wall, Maryjean

Madam Belle: Sex, Money, and Influence in a Southern Brothel (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780813147062)

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Madam Belle: Sex, Money, and Influence in a Southern Brothel by Wall, Maryjean

Madam Belle: Sex, Money, and Influence in a Southern Brothel

$27.95
Madam Belle: Sex, Money, and Influence in a Southern Brothel by Wall, Maryjean

Madam Belle: Sex, Money, and Influence in a Southern Brothel

$27.95
Format: Hardcover
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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 m

Author: Maryjean Wall
ISBN-10: 0813147069
ISBN-13: 9780813147062
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Language: English
Published: 10/14/2014
Pages: 226
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.20w x 1.00d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 08/11/2014
By Maryjean Wall
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Maryjean Wall served as the turf writer for the Lexington Herald-Leader for twenty-five years. The author of How Kentucky Became Southern: A Tale of Outlaws, Horse Thieves, Gamblers, and Breeders, she holds a doctorate and is an instructor in the Department of History at the University of Kentucky.

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