| A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812 (Pulitzer Prize Winner) Contributor(s): Ulrich, Laurel Thatcher (Author) |
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ISBN: 0679733760 ISBN-13: 9780679733768 Publisher: Vintage OUR PRICE: $18.00 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 1991 Annotation: Drawing on the diaries of a midwife and healer in eighteenth-century Maine, this intimate history illuminates the medical practices, household economies, religious rivalries, and sexual mores of the New England frontier. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Women's Studies - History | United States - Revolutionary Period (1775-1800) - Biography & Autobiography | Women |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 90055674 |
| Physical Information: 1" H x 5.2" W x 8" (0.75 lbs) 464 pages |
| Themes: - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher 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. |