My Notorious Life By Madame X

Manning, Kate

ISBN 10: 1408835649 / ISBN 13: 9781408835647

Published by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, London, England, 2013

About this Item

Large softcover, first edition, 676gms, 422 pages. This is the testament of Axie Muldoon, midwife, female physician, distributor of obscene materials, and the most scandalous woman in Manhattan. Book is in fair condition with moderate general wear and tear including heavy creasing to the spine and front and back wraps, otherwise no other pre-loved markings. Seller Inventory # HISFIC192

Bibliographic Details

Title: My Notorious Life By Madame X

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, London, England

Publication Date: 2013

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Fair

Dust Jacket Condition: Not Applicable

Edition: First Edition

About this title

Synopsis:

'In the end, they celebrated. They bragged.
They got me finally, was their feeling.
They said I would take my secrets to the grave.

They should be so lucky.'

Axie Muldoon, the headstrong daughter of Irish immigrants, forced to beg for pennies as a child on the brutal streets on New York City, grows up to become the most successful - and controversial - midwife of her time.

'Saved' from poverty by a well-meaning philanthropist, Axie is sent West with her younger brother and sister. But the kindness of strangers is short-lived and soon Axie returns to the city of her birth, alone, but determined to one day reunite her family.

When she is taken in by a Manhattan doctor Axie learns the craft that she will live by - and later fight for. She rises from the gutter to the glitter of Fifth Avenue high society, and discovers that the right way is not always the way of the church or the law, and that you should never trust a man who says 'trust me.' But what if that man is an irresistible risk-taker with a poetical Irish soul?

As Axie's reputation grows she finds herself on a collision course with the crusading official who would be the righteous instrument of her downfall. It will take all of her power to outwit him and save both herself and those she loves from ruin.

About the Author:

A former documentary television producer (and winner of two Emmy Awards and an Edward R. Murrow Award), Kate Manning has written for the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times Book Review, Glamour and More, among other publications. She is the author of Whitegirl, a novel, and is an adjunct faculty member of the English Department at Bard High School Early College. She lives with her family in New York City.

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