A Midwife s Tale

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A Midwife s Tale

Author	: Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
File Size	: 48,5 Mb
Publisher	: Vintage
Language	: English
Release Date	: 22 December 2010
ISBN	: 9780307772985
Pages	: 459 pages

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A Midwife s Tale by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich Book PDF Summary

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.

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