Victorian Tea at the Lockwood-Mathews Mansion Museum

The Lockwood-Mathews Mansion Museum will host its annual Victorian Tea on November 8th at 2 p.m. The event chaired by LMMM Trustee Marianne Howatson will feature a talk by Kate Manning, author of the highly acclaimed book, My Notorious Life.

Howatson says, “We are delighted that Kate Manning, the author of My Notorious Life, a book based on a true story from the scandalized headlines of Victorian New York City, where Axie Muldoon, the impoverished daughter of Irish Immigrants, becomes an enormously successful—and controversial—midwife will be with us. Just the thing to savor on a fall afternoon with a cup of tea and scones!”

A former documentary producer for public television station WNET-13, where she won two Emmy Awards, Kate Manning is the author of the critically-acclaimed novels, Whitegirl and My Notorious Life, which O, the Oprah Magazine called, “a daring page-turner, meticulously researched and astonishingly current.”

NPR’s Studio 360 host Kurt Anderson said, “It’s a fantastic yarn...absolutely Dickensian,” and novelist Marisa Silver wrote, “Kate Manning has taken a little-known nugget of history and spun it into a remarkable novel that is mesmerizing and resonant. My Notorious Life is an essential novel for our time.”

Ms. Manning has written for the New York Times, the Washington Post, Time, Glamour and More magazines, among others. She has taught creative writing at Bard High School Early College in Manhattan. She and her family live in Manhattan and spend the summer in Connecticut. For more information, visit www.katemanningauthor.com.

The event is generously sponsored by Cottages & Gardens Publications, AT&T, King Industries, Bankwell, Media Com, The Davies Company, Ian Ceppos, Al Gutierrez, and Cameron Paktinat.

The Museum’s 2015 cultural and educational programs are made possible in part by generous funding from LMMM’s Founding Patrons: The Estate of Cynthia Clark Brown; The Museum’s Distinguished Benefactors: Klaff’s, Xerox Foundation, and The Maurice Goodman Foundation.

Tickets for the Tea are $35 for members and $45 for non-members. Proceeds will go to support the Museum and its artistic, cultural and educational programs. For Victorian Tea reservations please contact: info@lockwoodmathewsmansion.com or 203-838-9799 ext. 4.

The Lockwood-Mathews Mansion Museum is a National Historic Landmark. Tours are offered Wednesdays through Sundays, at noon, 1 p.m., 2 p.m., and 3 p.m. Admission is $10 for adults, $8 for seniors, and $6 for children. Children under 8 are admitted free. For more information visit: www.lockwoodmathewsmansion.com, e-mail info@lockwoodmathewsmansion.com, or call 203-838-9799.