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В начале двадцатого века франко-канадская семья Пеллетье переезжает в Колорадо вслед за отцом, устроившимся на работу на мраморный карьер. Пеллетье-старший, возмущенный принятой на карьере потогонной системой, пытается объединить рабочих в профсоюз, но сталкивается с яростным сопротивлением владельцев компании. Его дочь, семнадцатилетняя Сильви Пеллетье, умная, дерзкая и решительная девушка, которая сотрудничала с местной газетой и писала статьи о невыносимых условиях труда в каменоломне, искренне хочет следовать идеалам семьи, но почти против воли влюбляется в наследника мраморной империи и оказывается в кругу сильных мира сего, разрываясь между возлюбленным и родными, едва сводящими концы с концами.

Сильви верит, что справедливость на ее стороне, и готова бороться за нее до конца, но хватит ли у нее сил и упорства?

В начале двадцатого века франко-канадская семья Пеллетье переезжает в Колорадо вслед за отцом, устроившимся на работу на мраморный карьер. Пеллетье-старший, возмущенный принятой на карьере потогонной системой, пытается объединить рабочих в профсоюз, но сталкивается с яростным сопротивлением владельцев компании. Его дочь, семнадцатилетняя Сильви Пеллетье, умная, дерзкая и решительная девушка, которая сотрудничала с местной газетой и писала статьи о невыносимых условиях труда в каменоломне, искренне хочет следовать идеалам семьи, но почти против воли влюбляется в наследника мраморной империи и оказывается в кругу сильных мира сего, разрываясь между возлюбленным и родными, едва сводящими концы с концами. Сильви верит, что справедливость на ее стороне, и готова бороться за нее до конца, но хватит ли у нее сил и упорства?
Kate Manning
GILDED MOUNTAIN
Copyright Kate Manning, 2022
All rights reserved
Е. Н. Шинкарева, перевод, 2024
Издание на русском языке, оформление.
ООО «Издательская Группа
„Азбука-Аттикус“», 2024 Издательство Иностранка

В начале двадцатого века франко-канадская семья Пеллетье переезжает в Колорадо вслед за отцом, устроившимся на работу на мраморный карьер. Пеллетье-старший, возмущенный принятой на карьере потогонной системой, пытается объединить рабочих в профсоюз, но сталкивается с яростным сопротивлением владельцев компании. Его дочь, семнадцатилетняя Сильви Пеллетье, умная, дерзкая и решительная девушка, которая сотрудничала с местной газетой и писала статьи о невыносимых условиях труда в каменоломне, искренне хочет следовать идеалам семьи, но почти против воли влюбляется в наследника мраморной империи и оказывается в кругу сильных мира сего, разрываясь между возлюбленным и родными, едва сводящими концы с концами. Сильви верит, что справедливость на ее стороне, и готова бороться за нее до конца, но хватит ли у нее сил и упорства?

In a voice infused with sly humor, Sylvie Pelletier recounts leaving her family’s snowbound mountain cabin to work in a manor house for the Padgetts, owners of the marble-mining company that employs her father and dominates the town. Sharp-eyed Sylvie is awed by the luxury around her; fascinated by her employer, the charming “Countess” Inge, and confused by the erratic affections of Jasper, the bookish heir to the family fortune. Her fairy-tale ideas take a dark turn when she realizes the Padgetts’ lofty philosophical talk is at odds with the unfair labor practices that have enriched them. Their servants, the Gradys, formerly enslaved people, have long known this to be true and are making plans to form a utopian community on the Colorado prairie.

Outside the manor walls, the town of Moonstone is roiling with discontent. A handsome union organizer, along with labor leader Mary Harris “Mother” Jones, is stirring up the quarry workers. The editor of the local newspaper—a bold woman who takes Sylvie on as an apprentice—is publishing unflattering accounts of the Padgett Company. Sylvie navigates vastly different worlds and struggles to find her way amid conflicting loyalties. When the harsh winter brings tragedy, Sylvie decides to act.

In a voice spiked with sly humor, Sylvie Pelletier recounts leaving her family's snowbound mountain cabin to work in a manor house for the Padgetts, owners of the marble-mining company that employs her father and dominates the town. Sharp-eyed Sylvie is awed by the luxury around her; fascinated by her employer, the charming "Countess" Inge, and confused by the erratic affections of Jasper, the bookish heir to the family fortune. Her fairy-tale ideas of romance take a dark turn when she realizes the Padgetts' lofty philosophical talk is at odds with the unfair labor practices that have enriched them. Their servants, the Gradys, formerly enslaved people, have long known this to be true and are making plans to form a utopian community on the Colorado prairie.


Outside the manor walls, the town of Moonstone is roiling with discontent. A handsome union organizer, along with labor leader Mary Harris "Mother" Jones, is stirring up the quarry workers. The editor of the local newspaper--a bold woman who takes Sylvie on as an apprentice--is publishing unflattering accounts of the Padgett Company. Sylvie navigates vastly different worlds and struggles to find her way amid conflicting loyalties. When the harsh winter brings tragedy, Sylvie must choose between silence and revenge.

In a voice infused with sly humor, Sylvie Pelletier recounts leaving her family’s snowbound mountain cabin to work in a manor house for the Padgetts, owners of the marble-mining company that employs her father and dominates the town. Sharp-eyed Sylvie is awed by the luxury around her; fascinated by her employer, the charming “Countess” Inge, and confused by the erratic affections of Jasper, the bookish heir to the family fortune. Her fairy-tale ideas take a dark turn when she realizes the Padgetts’ lofty philosophical talk is at odds with the unfair labor practices that have enriched them. Their servants, the Gradys, formerly enslaved people, have long known this to be true and are making plans to form a utopian community on the Colorado prairie.

Outside the manor walls, the town of Moonstone is roiling with discontent. A handsome union organizer, along with labor leader Mary Harris “Mother” Jones, is stirring up the quarry workers. The editor of the local newspaper—a bold woman who takes Sylvie on as an apprentice—is publishing unflattering accounts of the Padgett Company. Sylvie navigates vastly different worlds and struggles to find her way amid conflicting loyalties. When the harsh winter brings tragedy, Sylvie decides to act.

In a voice infused with sly humor, Sylvie Pelletier recounts leaving her family's snowbound mountain cabin to work in a manor house for the Padgetts, owners of the marble-mining company that employs her father and dominates the town. Sharp-eyed Sylvie is awed by the luxury around her; fascinated by her employer, the charming "Countess" Inge, and confused by the erratic affections of Jasper, the bookish heir to the family fortune. Her fairy-tale ideas take a dark turn when she realizes the Padgetts' lofty philosophical talk is at odds with the unfair labor practices that have enriched them. Their servants, the Gradys, formerly enslaved people, have long known this to be true and are making plans to form a utopian community on the Colorado prairie.

Outside the manor walls, the town of Moonstone is roiling with discontent. A handsome union organizer, along with labor leader Mary Harris "Mother" Jones, is stirring up the quarry workers. The editor of the local newspaper--a bold woman who takes Sylvie on as an apprentice--is publishing unflattering accounts of the Padgett Company. Sylvie navigates vastly different worlds and struggles to find her way amid conflicting loyalties. When the harsh winter brings tragedy, Sylvie decides to act.

История Экси Малдун, девочки из нищей ирландской семьи, рано осиротевшей, познавшей все беды, какие только можно познать, волею судьбы оказавшейся в доме доктора, ставшей акушеркой и достигшей невиданного успеха во времена, когда уделом женщины были кухня, детская да спальня. Разлученная после смерти родителей с братом и сестрой, Экси поклялась себе, что непременно найдет их и защитит от невзгод. В огромном Нью-Йорке ей предстоит стать истинной звездой, к ней на прием идут женщины всех сословий, и нищенки, и дамы из высшего света, она никому не отказывает в помощи. Экси, некогда маленькая попрошайка, и сама стала великосветской дамой. Но в отличие от светских бездельниц она трудится с утра до вечера, а то и ночи напролет, она врачует, спасает женщин – не только их тела, но и души. И порой делает это вопреки варварским законам. И однажды ей предстоит вступить в прямую схватку с законом, с лицемерами и ханжами, жаждущими ее крови.

«Моя нечестивая жизнь» – удивительно полнокровный роман о невероятной судьбе стойкой маленькой женщины. Это и пронзительная и счастливая история любви, и семейная сага, и яркое погружение в реальную историю. В основу романа легла история жизни Энн Ломан, известной как Мадам Рестелл, практиковавшей в Нью-Йорке акушерство почти полвека, спасшей сотни и сотни женщин.

Inspired by a real midwife who became one of the most controversial figures in Victorian New York City, this “action-packed, thought-provoking page-turner” (The New York Times) is an unforgettable tale—a love story, a family saga, and the confessions of a charismatic and passionate woman who changed the lives of countless others.

Meet the incomparable Axie Muldoon. Axie’s 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. Flouting convention and defying the law in the name of women’s rights, Axie rises from grim tenement rooms to the splendor of a mansion on Fifth Avenue, amassing wealth while learning over and over never to trust a man who says “trust me.”

When her services attract outraged headlines, Axie finds herself on a collision course with a crusading official—Anthony Comstock, founder of the Society for the Suppression of Vice. It will take all of Axie’s power to outwit him in the fight to preserve her freedom and everything she holds dear. Inspired by the true history of an infamous physician who was once called “the Wickedest Woman in New York,” Kate Manning is “writing in the venerable tradition of Stephen Crane…those social reformers knew that a powerful tale with memorable characters could draw us into the heat of social debates like nothing else” (The Washington Post).

A brilliant rendering of a scandalous historical figure, Kate Manning's My Notorious Life is an ambitious, thrilling novel introducing Axie Muldoon, a fiery heroine for the ages. Axie's 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. Flouting convention and defying the law in the name of women's reproductive rights, Axie rises from grim tenement rooms to the splendor of a mansion on Fifth Avenue, amassing wealth while learning over and over never to trust a man who says "trust me."

When her services attract outraged headlines, Axie finds herself on a collision course with a crusading official-Anthony Comstock, founder of the Society for the Suppression of Vice. It will take all of Axie's cunning and power to outwit him in the fight to preserve her freedom and everything she holds dear.

Inspired by the true history of an infamous female physician who was once called "the Wickedest Woman in New York," My Notorious Life is a mystery, a family saga, a love story, and an exquisitely detailed portrait of nineteenth-century America. Axie Muldoon's inimitable voice brings the past alive, and her story haunts and enlightens the present.