Greta Nettleton Reading

Don't miss hearing Greta Nettleton read from her new book, The Quack's Daughter: A True Story about the Private Life of a Victorian College Girl, tomorrow night at Prairie Lights! Visit our Facebook event page for more information.

Date: Saturday, June 21
Time: 2:00 P.M.–3:00 P.M.
Location: Prairie Lights Bookstore (15 S. Dubuque St.), Iowa City, IA

Praise
"I was fascinated by the story of Mrs. Dr. Rebecca Keck and her willful daughter Cora. The Quack's Daughter is good medicine!"—Charity Nebbe, Iowa Public Radio

"A complex and superbly written book."—Professor Emeritus Elizabeth A. Daniels, Vassar College Historian

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Greta Nettleton Readings

Greta Nettleton will be giving two readings from her new book, The Quack's Daughter: A True Story about the Private Life of a Victorian College Girl, on Friday. Make sure to stop by one!

Date: Friday, June 20
Time: 3:00 P.M.
Location: Vinton Public Library, Vinton, IA

Date: Friday, June 20
Time: 7:00 P.M.
Location: Barnes & Noble Booksellers (333 Collins Rd NE), Cedar Rapids, IA

Praise
"Offers a rare glimpse of life in late 19th-century Davenport through Cora Keck's eyes…and takes readers to Vassar's Poughkeepsie, NY, campus and Cora's favorite partying place, New York City."—Quad City Times

"I was fascinated by the story of Mrs. Dr. Rebecca Keck and her willful daughter Cora. The Quack's Daughter is good medicine!"—Charity Nebbe, Iowa Public Radio

Hot off the Press: THE QUACK'S DAUGHTER

The University of Iowa Press is proud to announce the release of The Quack's Daughter: A True Story about the Private Life of a Victorian College Girl, by Greta Nettleton!

Praise
"I was fascinated by the story of Mrs. Dr. Rebecca Keck and her willful daughter Cora. The Quack's Daughter is good medicine!"—Charity Nebbe, Iowa Public Radio

"A complex and superbly written book."—Professor Emeritus Elizabeth A. Daniels, Vassar College Historian

"In this riveting family history the author explores the life of her adventurous great-grandmother, Cora Keck, daughter to one of the most successful female patent-medicine entrepreneurs of the nineteenth century…. Cora's diary and a trove of astonishingly personal memorabilia enliven the book."—The New York Researcher