MANNING, Kate - My Notorious Life : By Madame X - (Excellent Larger Paperback)

Book looks brand new and unread to me.   >>>   Based on a true story from the scandalized headlines of Victorian times. The book is a portrait of Axie Muldoon, the impoverished daughter of Irish Immigrants who becomes an enormously successfuland controversial midwife (and abortionist). Separated from her siblings, apprenticed to a doctor, Axie parlays the sale of a few bottles of lunar tonic for relief of female complaint into a thriving practice as a female physician known as Madame X.  But as she rises from the gutter to the glitter of Fifth Avenue, Axie discovers that the right way is not always the way of 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 soul?  Soon, Axies choices put her on a collision course with one of the most zealous characters of her era: Anthony Comstock, founder of the Society for the Suppression of Vice, and it will take all of her power and wealth to outwit him and save herself and her family from ruin. A love story, a family saga, and a vivid rendering of a historical time and heated political climate, this is the tale of one woman making her indomitable way in a difficult world. Axie Muldoon is a heroine for the ages.              *Historical fiction * Biography *