Learned Ladies and Notorious Whores: The Women of the Scandalous Memoir
Presented by Rare Books LA at Los Angeles Union Station: ejected from polite society, three generations of courtesans turned the scandalous memoir into a genre of their own, exposing the hypocrisy of the men around them and reclaiming the worth of women that history tried to erase. This one-hour talk traces how these "learned ladies and notorious whores" wrote themselves Read More ...


