
A Midwife's Tale
The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812 (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich(Author)
Vintage Books (Publisher)
Published on 4. June 1991
Book
Paperback/Softback
464 pages
978-0-679-73376-8 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Random House USA Inc
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 204 mm
Width: 135 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
326 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-679-73376-8 (9780679733768)
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A Midwife's Tale
The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812 (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
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