This memoir offers a vivid account of brothel life in 1890s North America--in the city (Chicago, St. Louis), the Western boom town (Butte, Montana), and on the Canadian frontier. Containing the introductions to the 1919 and 1986 editions (by Judge Ben B. Lindsey and scholar Marcia Carlisle, respectively), its eponymous narrator offers great insight into the daily workings of both high and low class houses, as well as her relationships with madams, clientele, and members of the legitimate society in which prostitution flourished.