Madam Belle: Sex, Money, and Influence in a Southern Brothel
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The University Press of Kentucky, 2014.
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Maryjean Wall., & Maryjean Wall|AUTHOR. (2014). Madam Belle: Sex, Money, and Influence in a Southern Brothel . The University Press of Kentucky.

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Maryjean Wall and Maryjean Wall|AUTHOR. Madam Belle: Sex, Money, and Influence in a Southern Brothel The University Press of Kentucky, 2014.

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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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