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- Madam : the biography of Polly Adler, icon of the Jazz Age / by Applegate, Debby,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.From a nobody to a legend -- Man plans, god laughs -- The jazz baby -- What's a nice girl like you doing in a place like this? -- Liquor and lust -- Thumbs up with the mob -- The double standard -- The party girl racket -- The underworld complex -- The Jewish jezebel -- The female Al Capone -- Café society -- The big shot -- Madam emeritus."A biography of Pearl "Polly" Alder, New York City madam and icon of the Jazz Age"--- Subjects: Biographies.; Adler, Polly, 1900-1962.; Procuresses; Prostitution; Female prostitution.; Prostitution.;
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- Madam [large print] : the biography of Polly Adler, icon of the Jazz Age / by Applegate, Debby,author.;
Includes bibliographical references.From a nobody to a legend -- Man plans, god laughs -- The jazz baby -- What's a nice girl like you doing in a place like this? -- Liquor and lust -- Thumbs up with the mob -- The double standard -- The party girl racket -- The underworld complex -- The Jewish jezebel -- The female Al Capone -- Café society -- The big shot -- Madam emeritus."Pearl "Polly" Adler (1900-1962) was a diminutive dynamo whose Manhattan brothels in the Roaring Twenties became places not just for men to have the company of women but were key gathering places where the culturati and celebrity elite mingled with high society and with violent figures of the underworld--and had a good time doing it. As a Jewish immigrant from eastern Europe, Polly Adler's life is a classic American story of success and assimilation that starts like a novel by Henry Roth and then turns into a glittering real-life tale straight out of F. Scott Fitzgerald. Debby Applegate uses Polly's story as the key to unpacking just what made the 1920s the appallingly corrupt yet glamorous and transformational era that it was and how the collision between high and low is the unique ingredient that fuels American culture"--- Subjects: Biographies.; Large print books.; Adler, Polly, 1900-1962.; Procuresses; Prostitution; Female prostitution.; Prostitution.;
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- Madam : a novel of New Orleans / by Lynn, Cari.(CARDINAL)344220; Martin, Kellie,1975-(CARDINAL)537428;
"New Orleans, 1897. Mary Deubler makes a meager living on Venus Alley, the illegal red light district. That all changes when bible-thumping Alderman Sidney Story forces the creation of a legalized district of vice that's mockingly dubbed "Storyville" in his honor. Despite her looks and intelligence, Mary doesn't think she can make it on Basin Street, where girls turn tricks in plush, velvet wallpapered bordellos. But thanks to gumption, twists of fate, even a touch of voodoo, Mary rises above her hopeless lot to become the notorious Madam Josie Arlington. Filled with fascinating historical details and cameos by Jelly Roll Morton, Louie Armstrong, and photographer E. J. Bellocq, Madam is a fabulous romp through The Big Easy and the irresistible tale of a woman's rise to influence and infamy in a world ruled by men"--- Subjects: Historical fiction.; Deubler, Mary, 1864-1914; Brothels; Procuresses; Prostitutes; Red-light districts; Brothels.;
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- The madam and the spymaster : the secret history of the most famous brothel in wartime Berlin / by Jones, Nigel H.,author.(CARDINAL)738352; Brunner, Urs,author.(CARDINAL)879437; Schrammel, Julia,1982-author.(CARDINAL)880040;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-295) and index.Authors' foreword -- 'Fucking for the Führer': The birth of Salon Kitty -- Love for sale: Sex and prostitution in the Weimar Republic -- Love suppressed: The Nazi crackdown on Eros -- The end of love: Sex in concentration camps, military brothels and the Lebensborn project -- The hypocrites: Sex and the secret lives of the Nazi elite -- Twisted love: How Nazis used real and fake sex scandals to achieve total power -- The rivals: Heydrich, Canaris, and the competing Nazi police and intelligence agencies -- Spies in the house of love: Converting a brothel into a spy centre -- On the trail of Kitty Schmidt: The quest for a woman of mystery -- Kitty Schmidt and the Nazis: Survivor, opportunist or collaborator? -- Aftermath: The fate of Kitty Schmidt, her brothel and her family -- Salon kitsch: The 'establishment' in historical literature and on screen -- Conclusion: Researches and results -- Afterword: 'Is this still a brothel?" -- Chronology -- Brief biographies: Prominent people in the Third Reich linked with Salon Kitty.Revealing the sensational true story behind a forgotten part of espionage history, this book takes readers behind the doors of "Salon Kitty," a high-class Berlin brothel that, when the Nazis took power, became a dangerous spy center, staffed by female agents specially selected by the SS to coax secrets from their VIP clients- Subjects: Biographies.; Schmidt, Kitty, 1882-1954.; World War, 1939-1945; Brothels; Prostitution; Women spies; Procuresses; Brothels.; Female prostitution.; Prostitution.;
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- Memoirs of a woman of pleasure / by Cleland, John,1709-1789.(CARDINAL)130387;
Forced by the death of her parents to seek her fortune in London, Fanny Hill is duped into prostitution by an old procuress. In Mrs Brown's bawdy-house the naïve young woman begins her sexual initiation - progressing from innocence to curiosity and desire - and soon embarks on her own path in pursuit of pleasure, until she at last finds true love. John Cleland's story of Fanny's rise to respectability was denounced after its publication by the then Bishop of London as 'an open insult upon Religion and good manners', while James Boswell called it 'a most licentious and inflaming book'. But beside its highly entertaining and boisterous depictions of a startling variety of sexual acts, Fanny Hill stands as one of the great works of eighteenth-century fiction for its unique combination of parody, erotica and philosophy of sensuality.- Subjects: Erotic fiction.; Prostitutes;
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- La Celestina / by Rojas, Fernando de,-1541,author.(CARDINAL)507394; Cabella, Maite,editor.; Rico, Francisco,writer of foreword.(CARDINAL)512325;
"A bachelor, Calisto, ... uses the old procuress Celestina to start an affair with Melibea, an unmarried girl kept in seclusion by her parents. Though the two use the rhetoric of courtly love, sex--not marriage--is their aim. When he dies in an accident, she commits suicide"--Wikipedia.org.- Subjects: Man-woman relationships; Procuresses;
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