Tracy Beach
Auteur van My Life as a Whore: The Biography of Madam Laura Evens
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Tracy Beach, a Colorado historian and author of The Tunnels Under Our Feet: Colorado's Forgotten Hollow Sidewalks, was raised in Salida-the small Colorado town that Laura called home for fifty-three years-and was determined to give this wonderful woman her final wish-a biography of her amazing life.
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Beach’s writing is fairly blunt, with frequent explicit terms; she follows Evens in this, since Evens insisted she was “not a ‘lady of the lamp light’ or a ‘soiled dove’ – I’m a whore”. There’s some padding in the book, as Beach devotes considerable text to historical events – the repeal of the Sherman Silver Purchase Act and World War One, for example – but on the other hand these give time references for Evens’ activities.
Numerous illustrations, often somewhat risqué; Beach uses photographs of prostitutes from the ”Legends of America” website. It’s not clear how many of these are actually of women who worked for or with Evens. No footnotes but there are references by page number. The bibliography is heavy on general histories that don’t directly relate to Evens.
A quick read. For similar stories, see Alice, The Underworld Sewer, and Frontier Madam.… (meer)