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Alice: Memoirs of a Barbary Coast Prostitute

Winner of the California Historical Society Book Award
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Watch Anderson & Angus discuss new evidence of Alice's life and legacy

February 22, 2025

In March 2023, Ivy Anderson &Devon Angus spoke at the Jefferson County Historical Society in Port Townsend, Washington, revealing new evidence of Alice’s life and legacy, and ways that her story was censored back in 1913.

Find the talk here!

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Notes on the Underworld

Here you will find commentary from Ivy Anderson and Devon Angus touching upon all aspects of Alice Smith's story, from sex and gender at the turn of the century, to the history of journalism and today's sex worker rights movement. 

You will also find a selection of letters written in response to Alice Smith's story in 1913, which up until now have gone unpublished.

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