[PDF.65dd] A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812

A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812

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 | #15464 in Books |  Vintage Books |  1991-06-04 |  1991-06-04 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  8.00 x.96 x5.13l,.73 | File type: PDF | 444 pages

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||7 of 7 people found the following review helpful.| If you love history, you will love this book.|By IL Pam|I had expected to read a hard to read diary in old English with detailed midwife adventures. What I got was such a wonderful surprise! Yes, it is a diary with old English spellings but it was not hard to read. However, the best part is the explanations by the author. As she ties in another diary of that time long with|From Publishers Weekly|The diary of a midwife and herbalist reveals the prevalence of violence, crime and premarital sex in rural 18th-century New England. "Fleshing out this midwife's bare entries with interpretive essays . . . Ulrich marvelously illuminates wo

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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...

You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812   |  Laurel Thatcher Ulrich.Not only was the story interesting, engaging and relatable, it also teaches lessons.

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