Presented as true stories gathered from women of Chicago’s underworld, these first-person tales tell of a diary-keeping city girl, a Southern widow, a daughter of the Jewish ghetto, a drug addict, a flirt who went too far and a woman sold at a fixed price. The anonymous compiler frames them as warnings and pleas for understanding.
A document of Progressive-era anxieties about prostitution, best read as social history. Download the free EPUB.