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"\u201CExquisitely written and richly detailed, My Notorious Life is a marvel. Kate Manning\u2019s rags-to-riches Dickensian saga brings to vivid life the world of nineteenth-century New York City, in all its pitiful squalor and glittering opulence. I loved this novel.\u201D \u2014Christina Baker Kline, New York Times bestselling author of Orphan Train A brilliant rendering of a scandalous historical figure, Kate Manning\u2019s My Notorious Life is an ambitious, thrilling novel introducing Axie Muldoon, a fiery heroine for the ages. Axie\u2019s 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 \u201CLunar Tablets for Female Complaint\u201D into a thriving midwifery business. Flouting convention and defying the law in the name of women\u2019s 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 \u201Ctrust me.\u201D When her services attract outraged headlines, Axie finds herself on a collision course with a crusading official\u2014Anthony Comstock, founder of the Society for the Suppression of Vice. It will take all of Axie\u2019s 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 \u201Cthe Wickedest Woman in New York,\u201D My Notorious Life is a mystery, a family saga, a love story, and an exquisitely detailed portrait of nineteenth-century America. Axie Muldoon\u2019s inimitable voice brings the past alive, and her story haunts and enlightens the present."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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