WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZEDrawing 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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