Storyville
by Lois Battle
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Author: Lois BattleEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1997-12-01
ISBN: 0140267697
Number of pages: 448
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
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Book Review: A story about two very different turn-of-the-century women...
Summary: 5 Stars
A lifelong New Englander, I've never had much interest in any story set in the South. However, this book was one of the few exceptions...
It's 1898, and two very different women find their paths collide. Julia Randsome, the forty-something wife of a wealthy blueblood, seeks endless causes to validate her own existence. Having been raised in a serious-minded Northern family, she finds it odd and shattering to exist among silly society women who only care about getting married to the most eligible bachelors and who's wearing what to the next party.
Julia's latest cause is Storyville, otherwise known as "The District." She finds prostitution shameful and appalling, and starts a petition to get the district shut down at once. Little does she know that her husband owns one of the houses...
...in which Kate, a 15-year-old abandoned by a man who promised to marry her, is the latest sensation. Prostitution was the last thing she ever saw herself doing; but after being abandoned and not having a home to which she could return, Kate finds herself with little other options. She convinces herself it's not a bad life; it's little work, she's got a full stomach and the madam's almost like a mother to her.
Then Julia's son Lawrence comes into the house, towed by a friend. He and Kate immediately fall in love, but that's hard to explain to wealthy parents and friends when the object is a prostitute. Plus, Lawrence has just enlisted to fight in Cuba...
Just like "War Brides," Battle has done an excellent job researching and depicting a rich and colorful period in America's history. A thoroughly enjoyable read!
Summary of Storyville
Suffragette Julia Ransome yearns to close down Storyville, the high-priced brothel in New Orleans's seamy red-light district, even as her son falls in love with one of Storyville's ""girls."" Reprint. NYT. PW.Historical Books
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