About the Episode
This is the second episodes about Fair Elise, a toddler who spent several years in a brothel. She ended up in a brothel in 1913 because of her parents’ financial struggles and illnesses. At this point, brothels ran “wide open” in Lancaster, Pennsylvania with the encouragement of city officials. Learn what it was like to live in a brothel and see how Fair Elise’s life turned out. You might be surprised.
Resource List
Broder, Sherri. Tramps, Unfit Mothers, and Neglected Children: Negotiating the Family in Nineteenth-Century Philadelphia. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002.
Durst, Anna. “‘Of Women, By Women, and For Women’: The Day Nursery Movement in Progressive-Era United States.” Journal of Social History, vol 39, no 1 (Fall 2005), pp. 141-159.
Wood, Sharon E. Freedom of the Streets: Work, Citizenship, and Sexuality in a Gilded Age City. University of North Carolina, 2005.
Credits
Writer and Producer: M. Alison Kibler
Narrator: Gray Jabaji
Research Team: Anna Chiaradonna, Gray Jabaji, Tommy Peli, and Dylan Sykes
Sound Engineering: Vincent Smaldone and the Institute of the Mechanical Surround
Financial Support from Franklin & Marshall College
Additional Support from LancasterHistory
