The Underworld Sewer: A Prostitute Reflects on Life in the Trade, 1871-1909

by Josie Washburn and Dashka Slater

For twenty years Josie Washburn lived and worked in houses of prostitution. She spent the last twelve as the madam of a moderately fancy brothel in Lincoln, Nebraska. After retiring in 1907 and moving to Omaha, she turned to "throwing a searchlight on the underworld," including the "cribs" of Nebraska's largest city. The Underworld Sewer, based on her own experience in the profession, blazes with a kind of honesty unavailable to more conventional...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803297971
• ISBN13: 9780803297975
• Release Date: October 1997
• Publisher: Bison Books
• Length: 350 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.2" x 8.0"