My notorious life
Subtitle: a novel
By: Kate Manning
Edition: 1st Scribner hardcover ed.
Publisher: Scribner
Published: 2013
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 438
ISBN-13: 9781451698060
Subjects: Midwives; Families; Fiction
Description: An evocative tale based on the life of a controversial Victorian New York City midwife features plucky orphan Axie Muldoon, who recounts her apprenticeship and establishment of a thriving practice that is threatened by a censorious zealot.