Book description
In 1913 the San Francisco Bulletin published a serialized, ghostwritten memoir of a prostitute who went by the moniker Alice Smith. "A Voice from the Underworld" detailed Alice's humble Midwestern upbringing and her struggle to find aboveboard work, and candidly related the harrowing events she endured after entering "the life."…
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Why read it?
1 author picked Alice as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
I read this as part of my research into prostitution in the Victorian and Edwardian era for my next book, "The Red Light Districts of Tucson, 1870 - 1917." There are very few first person accounts from prostitutes on this epoch, so this was a must read.
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