My notorious life by Madame X
Manning, Kate2013
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Axie Muldoon - midwife, female physician, distributor of 'obscene' materials, and the most scandalous woman in New York. Her story begins in 1860, when she is 13 years old, the child of Irish emigrants, forced to beg on the streets for pennies with her sister and brother. When a Christian philanthropist sends the children West to 'save' them, Axie is separated from her mother and siblings. Back in New York, Axie is taken in by a local midwife who teaches her the craft she will live by - and later fight for. She makes her fortune, and discovers that the right way is not always the way of God or the law, and that you should never trust a man who says 'trust me'.
Main title:
My notorious life by Madame X / Kate Manning.
Author:
Manning, Kate, author
Imprint:
London : Bloomsbury, 2013.London : Bloomsbury, 2013.
Collation:
438 pages ; 24 cm
ISBN:
9781408835647 (hbk)1408835649
Dewey class:
813.6H
Local class:
FAFH
Language:
English
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BRN:
596740
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