A Midwife’s Tale
Read by
Susan Ericksen
Release:
02/14/2017
Release:
02/14/2017
Release:
02/14/2017
Release:
02/14/2017
Runtime:
15h 42m
Runtime:
15h 42m
Runtime:
15h 42m
Quantity:
“Ulrich marvelously illuminates women’s status, the history of medicine, and daily life in the early Republic.”
Publishers Weekly
Winner of the 1991 Pulitzer Prize for History
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 twenty-seven 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.
Between 1785 and 1812, a midwife and healer named Martha Ballard kept a diary that recorded her arduous work (in twenty-seven 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.
Release:
2017-02-14
2017-02-14
2017-02-14
2017-02-14
Runtime:
Runtime:
Runtime:
Runtime:
15h 42m
15h 42m
15h 42m
15h 42m
Format:
audio
audio
audio
audio
Weight:
0.0 lb
1.18 lb
0.5 lb
1.18 lb
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781515983927
9781665289320
9781665289337
9781515913924
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