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

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
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 10/14/2014
Pages: 226
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.20w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9780813147062

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 08/11/2014

About the Author

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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