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A Midwife's Tale

By Ulrich, Laurel Thatcher

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A Midwife's Tale

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WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE 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 27 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.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
464
Release Date:
1991-06-04
Publication Date:
1991-06-04
Publisher:
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0679733760
ISBN13:
9780679733768
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
326 g
Height:
135 cm
Width:
204 cm
Thickness:
25 cm
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