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

by Maryjean Wall (Author)

• New

  Paperback
  2016

  $28.16

  Offers a tantalizing true story of vice and power in the Gilded Age South, as told through the life and times of the notorious Miss Belle. 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.