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A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812 (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812 (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
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PULITZER PRIZE WINNER - Drawing on the diaries of one woman in eighteenth-century Maine, "A truly talented historian unravels the fascinating life of a community that is so foreign, and yet so similar to our own" (The New York Times Book Review).
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.
Author: Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 06/04/1991
Pages: 464
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.20w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9780679733768
Award: 1991 Pulitzer Prize Winner - History
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.
Author: Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 06/04/1991
Pages: 464
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.20w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9780679733768
Award: 1991 Pulitzer Prize Winner - History
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