The staff at Miss Laura’s never stop learning. We like to share our enthusiasm for this particular genre with our customers and readers. Did you know that we used to have a book club? Below you will find some of the books that help us get a detailed look inside of other brothels just like Miss Laura’s. We also get to learn about processes directly from women who were madams the vast majority of their lives. We hope that you enjoy these titles as much as we do.
- Nell Kimball, Her Life as an American Madam By: Nell Kimball
- Maxine “Call Me Madam” The Life and Times of a Hot Springs Madam By: Maxine Temple Jones
- The Maimie Papers By: Maimie Pinzer, Ruth Rosen et al.
- Pauline’s Memoirs of a Happy Hooker By: Pauline Tabor
- The Lady of the House: The Autobiography of Sally Stanford By: Sally Stanford
- Prostitution in the Gilded Age: The Jennie Hollister Story By: Kevin Murphy
- The Last Madam: A Life in the New Orleans Underworld By: Chris Wilz
- The Underworld Sewer: A Prostitute Reflects on Life in the Trade 1871-1909 By: Josie Washburn
- Prostitution and Victorian Society: Women, Class and the State By : Judith R. Walkowitz
- The Lost Sisterhood: Prostitution in America, 1900-1918 By: Ruth Rosen
- Upstairs Girls: Prostitution in the American West By: Michael Rutter
- Daughters of Joy, Sisters of Misery: Prostitutes in the American West 1965-1890 By: Anne M. Butler
- Behind Brothel Doors: The Business of Prostitution in Kansas, Nebraska, and Oklahoma (1860-1940) By: Jan Mackell Collins
- Uneasy Virtue: The Politics of Prostitution and the American Reform Tradition By: Barbara Meil Hobson
- The Response to Prostitution in the Progressive Era By: Mark Thomas Connelly
- A House is Not a Home By: Polly Adler
- The History of Prostitution: It’s Extent, Causes and Effects Throughout the World By: William W. Sanger
- Minneapolis Madams: The Lost History of Prostitution on the Riverfront By: Penny A. Petersen
- An Open Secret: The Story of Deadwood’s Most Notorious Bordellos By: Chris Enss
- Madam Millie: Bordellos from Silver City to Ketchikan By: Max Evans
- Madeline: An Autobiography
- Boudoirs to Brothels: The Intimate World of Wild West Women By: Michael Rutter
- Madam Belle: Sex, Money, and Influence in a Southern Brothel By: Maryjean Wall
- Madam Belle Brezing By: Buddy Thompson
- Belle Brezing By: MC Price
- According to Kate By: Chris Enss
- Sin in the Second City: Madams, Ministers, Playboys, and the Battle for America’s Soul By: Karen Abbott
- Come Into My Parlor: A Biography of the Aristocratic Everleigh Sisters of Chicago By: Charles Washburn
- Looking for Lizzie The True Story of an Ohio Madam, Her Sporting Life and Hidden Legacy By: Debra Lape
- What’s a Poor Girl To Do? Prostitution in Mid-Nineteenth Century America By: Elizabeth A. Topping
- Alice: Memoirs of a Barbary Coast Prostitute Edited By: Ivy Anderson and Devon Angus
- The Orderly Disorderly House By: Carol Erwin with Floyd Miller
- Miss Ollie Tennessee Madam By: Mary Anne Sanders
- Hell’s Half Acre By: Richard F. Selcer
- E.J. Bellocq: Storyville Portraits The Museum of Modern Art
- Storyville, New Orleans, Being an Authentic, Illustrated Account of the Notorious Red Light District By: Al Rose
- City of Eros: New York City, Prostitution and the Commercialization of Sex By: Timothy J Gilfoyle
- Madam Inside a Nevada Brothel By: Lora Shaner
- The Madams of San Francisco By Curt Gentry
- Brides of the Multitude: Prostitution in the Old West By: Jeremy Agnew
- Idaho Madams By: Miliana Marsenich
- Montana Madams By: Nann Parrett
- Empire of Sin: A Story of Sex, Jazz, Murder, and the Battle for Modern New Orleans By: Gary Krist
- Urban Reform and Sexual Vice in Progressive Era Philadelphia: The Faithful and the Fallen By: James H. Adams
- Prostitution, Polygamy, and Power: Salt Lake City, 1847-1918 By: Jeffrey D. Nichols
- Gold Coast Madams: The Secret Life of Rose Laws By: Rose Laws and Dianna Harris
- The Life Before Us By: Romain Gary
- Spectacular Wickedness: Sex, Race, and Memory in Storyville New Orleans By: Emily Epstein Landau
- Unmentionable: The Victorian Lady’s Guide to Sex, Marriage, and Manners By: Therese Oneill
- The Murder of Helen Jewett: The Life and Death of a Prostitute in Nineteenth-Century New York By: Patricia Cline Cohen
- Sunset Lodge in Georgetown, The Story of a Madam By: David Gregg Hodges
- The Social Evil in Chic age: A Study of Existing Conditions With Recommendations By: The Vice Commission of Chicago
- Attitudes Toward Sex in Antebellum America: A Brief History with Documents By: Helen Horowitz
- Harolots, Whore and Hackabouts: A History of Sex for Sale By: Kate Lister
- Guidebooks to Sin: The Blue Books of Storyville, New Orleans By: Pamela D. Arceneaux
- Under the Lid An Appeal to True Womanhood By: Lydia Taylor
- Josie Arlington Storyville: The Life and Times of a New Orleans Madam By: Marita Woywod Crandle