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This review is from: Their Sisters' Keepers: Prostitution in New York City, 1830-1870 (Hardcover)
I bought "Their Sister's Keepers" because I was researching the history of Fanny White, one of the leading "Madams" of the period, for a biography I am writing on Edmon Blankman, Esquire, a young and successful criminal lawyer in New York City, who married her as his first wife. She died within a couple of years thereafter, and her will, which left her substantial fortune to her husband, was hotly contested by her siblings at probate, over a four year period. The contest was richly reported in The New York Times, right down to the testimony given, and in the end, Edmon prevailed. The book provides wonderful detail of the "profession" during that time frame, and helped corroborate details I had found elsewhere. Anyone researching that era will find the book of great interest.
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Their Sisters' Keepers: Prostitution in New York City, 1830-1870 by Marilynn Wood Hill (Hardcover - June 14, 1993)
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