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Madeleine: An Autobiography
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Persea Books
This memoir offers a vivid account of brothel life in 1890s North America--in the city (Chicago, St. Louis), the Western boom town (Butte, Montana), and on the Canadian frontier. Containing the introductions to the 1919 and 1986 editions (by Judge Ben B. Lindsey and scholar Marcia Carlisle, respectively), its eponymous narrator offers great insight into the daily workings
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Paperback
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368 pages
Published
September 1st 2004
by Persea Books
(first published 2004)
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You can get this as a free download if you do a search. This memoir was so controversial when it was published in 1919, the president of Harper & Brothers publishing company, Clinton Tyler Brainard,was arrested for printing the book, not because of graphic sexual details in the book, but because the author showed no remorse for her life of sin. He refused to give the author's real name and was fined $1,000.00. He won on appeal.
Madeleine describes in great detail her life asof a prostitute. ...more
Madeleine describes in great detail her life asof a prostitute. ...more
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