Storyville
 

Storyville

by Lois Battle

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. (read review)

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Daisy M
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Storyville was probably the most interesting book that ive read this school year. It is about the red light district of old New Orleans. How the book got in my hands is a bit of a mystery - and one that a lot of people would never believe. It took me a while to get into the book but since it reflects the history of my neighborhood and house i thought that it was really interesting later on. It was cool to be able to recognise places in New Orleans that are still around today - and even...

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