A Midwife's Tale
The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812
By Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
(Vintage, Paperback, 9780679733768, 464pp.)
Publication Date: June 4, 1991
Categories: Women's Studies - History
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Description
Drawing on the diaries of a midwife and healer in eighteenth-century Maine, this intimate history illuminates the medical practices, household economies, religious rivalries, and sexual mores of the New England frontier.
Praise For A Midwife's Tale…
"A major source through which we can vicariously experience the rural life of early New England." --Carl N. Degler, The New York Times Book Review
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