A Southern madam and her man
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Amherst, Massachusetts : White Poppy Press, 2023.
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Amherst, Massachusetts : White Poppy Press, 2023.
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Book
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xiii, 337 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 23 cm
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English

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'The story of two people who, despite their conventional upbringings, thrived in the raucous decade known as the Gay Nineties, or America's decadent version of the Gilded Age. The daughter of a wagonmaker, Susie Tillett was raised amid the horse and hemp farms of the Kentucky Bluegrass; Arthur Jack was the oldest son and heir of a successful Atlanta merchant. By the time they met in 1892, when they both were in their early thirties, Susie had become the successful madam of popular "parlor houses" (up-scale brothels) in Lexington, Kentucky, and Chattanooga, Tennessee. Arthur had left a wife and a child in Atlanta to become a saloonist, gambler, horse-trader, and publicly acclaimed "dashing Don Juan" about town. Uncovered during a decade of unflinching research and told here for the first time by their great-grandson, the author and historian David Dearinger, this is a tale of conventional people making unusual and even socially suspect choices simple, in the end, to do the best they could."--Back cover.

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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Dearinger, D. B. 1. (2023). A Southern madam and her man . White Poppy Press.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Dearinger, David B. 1950-. 2023. A Southern Madam and Her Man. White Poppy Press.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Dearinger, David B. 1950-. A Southern Madam and Her Man White Poppy Press, 2023.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Dearinger, David B. 1950-. A Southern Madam and Her Man White Poppy Press, 2023.

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