@article{THESIS,
      recid = {2489},
      author = {Hester, Ella},
      title = {Virginia Brooks: The Controversial Life and Works of a  Turn of the Twentieth Century Chicago Anti-Vice Activist  and Author},
      publisher = {University of Chicago},
      school = {B.A.},
      address = {2019-06},
      number = {THESIS},
      abstract = {Virginia Brooks’ investigative anti-vice work has had a  long-standing legacy in turn of the 20th century US  prostitution scholarship. Her book, My Battles with Vice,  offers an uniquely forward thinking theory that low wages  were the primary driver of young girls to prostitution, and  not sin. However, there are doubts about the true  authorship of her works and her beliefs. Using a  biographical approach, I both fact checked the few, biased  accounts of Brooks’ life, and gave historical context to  her ideology and actions. Brooks was a minor celebrity, but  she disappeared from public memory in the decades after her  death due to the manipulation of her ex-husband while her  play, Little Lost Sister, became a classic and toured the  country for decades after her death. Brooks’ character on  the historical record is not accurate, and my original  research offers the start to correcting it.},
      url = {http://knowledge.uchicago.edu/record/2489},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.2489},
}