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Belle Brezing (June 16, 1860 – August 11, 1940) was a nationally known madam in Lexington, Kentucky at the end of the 19th century and into the beginning of the 20th. [1] . Her brothel was known as the "most orderly of disorderly houses". [5] Early life. Belle Brezing was born Mary Belle Cox, the illegitimate daughter of Sarah Ann Cox.
A collection of 277 items related to Belle Brezing, a notorious prostitute and madam in Lexington, Kentucky, from 1868 to 1983. The collection includes photographs, scrapbooks, letters, and newspaper clippings that document her life, family, and business.
Belle Brezing was born June 16, 1860 as Mary Belle Cox, the second child of Sarah Ann Cox, a sex worker and dressmaker. Sarah married a saloon owner named George Brezing, whose name Belle adopted. The marriage was riddled with abuse, infidelity, and drunkenness, leading to divorce in 1866.
Nov 26, 2014 · When Belle was a year old, her mother, Sallie, married a German shopkeeper named George Brezing, an abusive alcoholic who regularly beat his wife in front of the girls. Sallie often gave as good as she got and, between fits of temper, entertained men at a local brothel. After five violent years, the toxic couple divorced.
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Mariam interviews Doug Tattershall, author of Belle Brezing: American Magdalene, about his book. They discuss Belle Brezing’s early life, her years as the na...
Feb 10, 2017 · Few individuals in the history of the Commonwealth of Kentucky are as controversially remembered and celebrated today as Belle Brezing. A Lexington madam, Brezing had a nationwide reputation for running the Victorian era's “most orderly of dis-orderly homes.”
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Oct 23, 2014 · Belle Brezing, the novel, takes a look at the woman who died in virtual isolation in 1940, decades after her business was closed by the Army in 1917. Brezing was a nationally known southern...
