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Scribner
September 2013
On Sale: September 10, 2013
438 pages
ISBN: 1451698062
EAN: 9781451698060
Kindle: B00A28HTKO
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Historical
A brilliant rendering of a scandalous historical figure,
Kate Manning’s My Notorious Life is an ambitious,
thrilling novel introducing Axie Muldoon, a fiery heroine
for the ages.
Axie’s story begins on the
streets of 1860s New York. The impoverished child of Irish
immigrants, she grows up to become one of the wealthiest and
most controversial women of her day.
In vivid
prose, Axie recounts how she is forcibly separated from her
mother and siblings, apprenticed to a doctor, and how she
and her husband parlay the sale of a few bottles of “Lunar
Tablets for Female Complaint” into a thriving midwifery
business. Flouting convention and defying the law in the
name of women’s reproductive rights, Axie rises from grim
tenement rooms to the splendor of a mansion on Fifth Avenue,
amassing wealth while learning over and over never to trust
a man who says “trust me.”
When her services
attract outraged headlines, Axie finds herself on a
collision course with a crusading official—Anthony Comstock,
founder of the Society for the Suppression of Vice. It will
take all of Axie’s cunning and power to outwit him in the
fight to preserve her freedom and everything she holds dear.
Inspired by the true history of an infamous female
physician who was once called “the Wickedest Woman in New
York,” My Notorious Life is a mystery, a family
saga, a love story, and an exquisitely detailed portrait of
nineteenth-century America. Axie Muldoon’s inimitable voice
brings the past alive, and her story haunts and enlightens
the present.
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