{"product_id":"nell-kimball","title":"Nell Kimball","description":"\u003cb\u003eA witty, wild-spirited, purely American autobiography by a prostitute-turned-madam who lived and operated at the turn of the twentieth century.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Looking back on my life, and it’s the only way I can look at it now, nothing in it came out the way most people would want their life to be lived. And while I began at fifteen in a good house with no plans, just wanting as a young whore to hunker on to something to eat and something good to wear, I ended up as a business woman, becoming a sporting house madam, recruiting, disciplining whores, running high-class places. Always wondering, too, why it had happened just that way. Now I can say, if I ever had me any remorse, I never had any regrets.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSo begin the remarkable reminiscences of Nell Kimball. From her beginnings as a young hooker in St. Louis, to life as a madam in New Orleans, wide-open San Francisco, and back again in the polite soft-spoken corruption of New Orleans, Kimball recounts her own American success story while training a knowing eye on America at large. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith its down-to-earth, straight-shooting American eloquence, this shrewd, uninhibited, and frequently comic autobiography, as edited by Stephen Longstreet, reads like a cross between Daniel Defoe’s \u003ci\u003eMoll Flanders\u003c\/i\u003e and Bob Dylan’s \u003ci\u003eChronicles\u003c\/i\u003e.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57507758539125,"sku":"9781681375786","price":15.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781681375786.jpg?v=1787042898","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/nell-kimball","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}