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Exquisitely written and richly detailed, My Notorious Life is a marvel. Kate Mannings 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. Christina Baker Kline, New York Times bestselling author of Orphan Train A brilliant rendering of a scandalous historical figure, Kate Mannings My Notorious Life is an ambitious, thrilling novel introducing Axie Muldoon, a fiery heroine for the ages. Axies 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.



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Kate Manning

Kate Manning is a former documentary producer for public television, and the winner of two NY Emmy awards. She has written for numerous publications, including The New York Times, The Guardian (UK) , The Los Angeles Times Book Review, Glamour, and More magazine. She lives in New York City where she has taught creative writing at Bard High School Early College.



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