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A Midwife's Tale

The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812

by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
Susan Ericksen
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Drawing on the diaries of one woman in eighteenth-century Maine, this intimate history illuminates the medical practices, household economies, religious rivalries, and sexual mores of the New England frontier.
Between 1785 and 1812, a midwife and healer named Martha Ballard kept a diary that recorded her arduous work (in twenty-seven years she attended 816 births) as well as her domestic life in Hallowell, Maine. On the basis of that diary, Laurel Thatcher Ulrich gives us an intimate and densely imagined portrait, not only of the industrious and reticent Martha Ballard but of her society. At once lively and impeccably scholarly, A Midwife's Tale is a triumph of history on a human scale.

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    February 14, 2017

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      • ISBN: 9781515993926
      • File size: 452277 KB
      • Duration: 15:42:14

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Publisher's Weekly

      June 3, 1991
      The diary of a midwife and herbalist reveals the prevalence of violence, crime and premarital sex in rural 18th-century New England. ``Fleshing out this midwife's bare entries with interpretive essays . . . Ulrich marvelously illuminates women's status, the history of medicine and daily life in the early Republic,'' said PW . Illustrated.

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