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My Notorious Life

by Kate Manning
Terry Donnelly
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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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Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc. by arrangement with Simon and Schuster Audio Edition: Unabridged

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  • ISBN: 9781490601786
  • File size: 575820 KB
  • Release date: December 15, 2013
  • Duration: 19:59:37

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  • ISBN: 9781490601786
  • File size: 575901 KB
  • Release date: December 15, 2013
  • Duration: 19:59:29
  • Number of parts: 19
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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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Fiction Literature Historical Fiction
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