
A Midwife's Tale
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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 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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- Intro
- Other Books by This Author
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Maps and Illustrations
- Tables and Graphs
- Introduction "A Great Sea a Going"
- Chapter One - August 1787: "Exceeding Dangerously Ill"
- Chapter Two - September 1788: "Warpt a Piece"
- Chapter Three - October 1789: "Mrs Foster Has Sworn a Rape on a Number of Men"
- Chapter Four - November 1792: "Matrimonial Writes"
- Chapter Five - December 1793: "Birth 50. Birth 51"
- Chapter Six - January 1796: "Find My House Up in Arms"
- Chapter Seven - February 1801: "A Desection Performd"
- Chapter Eight - March 1804: "What a Scean Had I to Go at Evening"
- Chapter Nine - April 1806: "Polly Purington Here"
- Chapter Ten - May 1809: "Workt in my Gardin"
- Epilogue
- Appendix: Medicinal Ingredients Mentioned in Martha Ballard's Diary
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author
- Also By Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
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