
My Notorious Life
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Meet the incomparable Axie Muldoon. 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 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 power to outwit him in the fight to preserve her freedom and everything she holds dear. Inspired by the true history of an infamous physician who was once called ?the Wickedest Woman in New York,? Kate Manning is ?writing in the venerable tradition of Stephen Crane...those social reformers knew that a powerful tale with memorable characters could draw us into the heat of social debates like nothing else? (The Washington Post).
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- Intro
- Dedication
- Note
- Chapter One: Confession
- Book One: Ax of Kindness
- Chapter Two: For Bread Alone
- Chapter Three: Asylum
- Chapter Four: Amputated
- Chapter Five: Chosen
- Chapter Six: My Heart Is Like Wax
- Chapter Seven: A Wild Ungoverned Heart
- Chapter Eight: Mrs. Duffy
- Chapter Nine: A White Rag
- Chapter Ten: God's Arms
- Book Two: Apprenticed
- Chapter Eleven: My Enemy
- Chapter Twelve: Small Hands
- Chapter Thirteen: Bilious Pills and Liver Invigorator
- Chapter Fourteen: Teacher
- Chapter Fifteen: Sleight of Hand
- Chapter Sixteen: Student
- Chapter Seventeen: The Plethoric Habit of Body
- Book Three: The Principles of Midwifery
- Chapter Eighteen: Reprieve
- Chapter Nineteen: A Proposition
- Chapter Twenty: Shield
- Chapter Twenty-One: Lillian
- Book Four: A Useful Wife
- Chapter Twenty-Two: Inheritance
- Chapter Twenty-Three: Derangement of the Uterus
- Chapter Twenty-Four: Vessel
- Chapter Twenty-Five: A Fraud
- Chapter Twenty-Six: A Chance Encounter
- Chapter Twenty-Seven: Assistant
- Book Five: Liberty Street
- Chapter Twenty-Eight: My Enemy
- Chapter Twenty-Nine: Offices & Boudoirs, Saloons & Salons
- Chapter Thirty: Trouble Named Susan
- Chapter Thirty-One: Slander
- Chapter Thirty-Two: Guardian
- Chapter Thirty-Three: Warning
- Chapter Thirty-Four: Riot
- Chapter Thirty-Five: Notorious
- Chapter Thirty-Six: A Gilded Playground
- Chapter Thirty-Seven: In the Dock
- Book Six: Luxury
- Chapter Thirty-Eight: A Midge on a Summer Night
- Chapter Thirty-Nine: It's You
- Chapter Forty: A Change of Circumstances
- Chapter Forty-One: Take Your Seats Ladies and Gentlemen
- Chapter Forty-Two: A House Tour
- Book Seven: The Hydra-Headed Monster
- Chapter Forty-Three: A Weeder in God's Garden
- Chapter Forty-Four: Cordelia
- Chapter Forty-Five: The Hounds of Hell
- Chapter Forty-Six: Mrs. McGinty
- Chapter Forty-Seven: Mother ____
- Author's Note
- Acknowledgments
- Reading Group Guide
- Author Q&A
- 'Gilded Mountain' Teaser
- About Kate Manning
- Copyright
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