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The Petticoat Parade
Madam Monnier and the Roe Street Brothels
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The Petticoat Parade is a social history of Josie de Bray and the madams of the Perth red light district, written by award-winning author, Leigh Straw.
Josie de Bray, also known as Madam Monnier or Marie Louise Monnier, was a brothel madam who owned most of Roe Street, Perth from World War I up to the 1940s. A returned soldier attempted to shoot her dead in her brothel in 1917, and her 'bungalow' became a focal point of underworld violence during the 1920s.
She travelled back to France before World War II to visit her family, where she was bombed out of homes repeatedly and captured by German forces. She was a prisoner of war, and one story even places her in a concentration camp. Despite these ordeals, she survived, returned to Perth in 1947, and resumed her business on Roe Street until her death in 1953, having amassed a fortune.
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ISBN: 9781760990558
Publisher: Fremantle Press
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 31 August 2021
Country: Australia
Imprint: Fremantle Press
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 14.0mm
Width: 153.0mm
Height: 261.0mm
Weight: 250g
Pages: 192
About the Author
Leigh Straw is an academic, historian and writer. She is the author of true crime biographies of Australian crime figures Kate Leigh and Dulcie Markham, and Australia's first female detective, Lillian Armfield. Leigh was the joint winner of the 2018 Margaret Medcalf Award for her book, After the War- The Mental and Physical Scars of World War 1. Leigh is Senior Lecturer in History at The University of Notre Dame Australia.
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