BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//sebbo.net//ical-generator//EN NAME:Peterborough Town Library X-WR-CALNAME:Peterborough Town Library BEGIN:VEVENT UID:95cfc54b-567b-4a84-9bd3-55f1a35a3f8a SEQUENCE:0 DTSTAMP:20260916T223658Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261014T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261014T180000 SUMMARY:A Gilded Age Tale of Two Ambitious Women LOCATION:Peterborough Town Library\nPeterborough Town Library X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Peterborough Town Library; X-APPLE-RADIUS=10;X-TITLE=Peterborough Town Library:geo:42.8778331,-71.948 1458 GEO:42.8778331;-71.9481458 DESCRIPTION:Join author Greta Nettleton for a special Peterborough Present s discussion of her book "The Quack's Daughter: A True Story About the Pri vate Life of a Victorian College Girl.".\nhttps://peterboroughtownlibrary. libnet.info/event/17449418 X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

In 1884\, a Vassar student with a scandalo us background burst onto New York City&rsquo\;s \;social scene with hi gh ambitions. The tale is based on \;the intimate \;Vassar diary k ept by Greta Nettleton's great grandmother\, \;a charming and spirited adventurer \;named Cora Keck. The tale \;transports you into Amer ica&rsquo\;s past as observed by a native. Cora&rsquo\;s powerful mother\, Mrs. Dr. Rebecca Keck\, pulled the strings in Cora&rsquo\;s life from her medical practice in Davenport\, Iowa \;and \;paid for everything. Her controversial career as a self-made patent medicine millionaire began with female herbal home care before the Civil War and lasted profitably u ntil she retired in the 1890s\, at the dawn of modern medical science in t he US. \;

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About the Presenter: \;

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Greta Nettleton is the author of \;The Quack's Daughter: A True S tory About the Private Life of a Victorian College Girl published by the \;University of Iowa Press in 2014. \;She was a 2017 fellow at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and \;won the 2018 Book of the Year Award from the Rockland County (NY) Library System. \;She is currently at work on The Charmed Line\, \;a novelized prequel about &ldquo\;the quack&rsquo\;s daughter&rsquo\;s mother&rdquo\;. Based on years of research on women in 19th century American medicine\, it will make you question the myth that &ldquo\;there were no women doctors back t hen." \;

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About Peterborough Presents:

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Peterborough Presents was designed to give a platform to the many local people who want to teach or share. You do not have to have a polish ed presentation\, you just need to be passionate\, comfortable speaking to a group\, and have a presentation that the community will learn from and enjoy. To find out more about how to pitch your presentation\, visit our Peterborough Presen ts page.

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