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

Wall, Maryjean

ISBN 10: 0813147069 / ISBN 13: 9780813147062

Edité par University Press of Kentucky, 2014

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SIGNED by author and personally inscribed on the title page "To Dowling.Maryjean Wall October 11, 2014". Otherwise, this hardcover with dustjacket is in very good condition. Your purchase benefits literacy and summer reading programs in Cincinnati and Hamilton County, Ohio. We ship every business day. All books ship in cardboard bookfolds with delivery confirmation. Sets or unusually heavy items ship in a box.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Madam Belle: Sex, Money, and Influence in a Southern Brothel (Topics In Kentucky History)
• Éditeur: University Press of Kentucky
• Date de parution: 2014
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0813147069
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780813147062
• Reliure: hardcover
• État de l'article: Very Good
• État de la jaquette: Very Good
• Poids: 18 onces
• Signé: Signed

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Synopsis

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

À propos de l?auteur

Maryjean Wall served as the turf writer for the Lexington Herald-Leader for thirty-five years. She recently received her doctoral degree in history from the University of Kentucky.