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Domenica Niehoff, German prostitute, dominatrix, sex worker rights activist and television personality; María de la Caridad Norberta Pacheco Sánchez, a.k.a. Caridad la Negra, Spanish prostitute and madam, early to mid-20th century; Barbara Payton, American actress turned prostitute [3]
Pearl de Vere (October 1859 – June 5, 1897), known as the "soiled dove of Cripple Creek", was a 19th-century prostitute and madam, and owner of one of the most famed and exclusive brothels in the American Old West.
Julia Brown (died after 1860) was an American madam and prostitute active in mid-nineteenth century New York City. Brown has been described as "the best-known prostitute in antebellum America". [1] Brown was known for playing the piano in her brothel and for being a guest at functions hosted by the best families in New York.
The national move to criminalize prostitution was led by Protestant middle-class men and women who participated in the revivalism movement of the 19th century. [74] Many of the women who posed in 19th- and early-20th-century vintage erotica were prostitutes. The most famous were the New Orleans women who posed for E. J. Bellocq.
In the 18th century its prevalence increased rapidly and continued to do so in the 19th century. [5] While most European countries were at the time developing measures to contain the disease, this was not the case in North America as social stigma against syphilis was too strong to even acknowledge it.
Red Light Lizzie (fl. 1860 –1875) was the pseudonym of an American madam, procuress and underworld figure in New York City during the mid-to late 19th century. [1] [2]During the 1860s and 1870s, she controlled much of New York City's prostitution, along with Jane the Grabber.
Graham arrived in Seattle by 1884, [5] charged with "Keeping House of Prostitution" by King [County] Frontier Justice by 1887; [6] the city, barely three decades old, was at the tail end of a period (from November 23, 1883, until a series of court decisions in 1887–1888 [7]) in which women's suffrage had led to a triumph of "reform" politics there.
Mattie Silks, or Martha Ready [1] (1846 [2] – 7 January 1929 [3]), was a prostitute [4] and leading madam in the late 19th century American West. [ 1 ] Early life