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| Genre/Form: | Biography |
|---|---|
| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Ulrich, Laurel. Midwife's tale. New York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 1990 (OCoLC)609206722 |
| Named Person: | Martha Ballard; Martha Ballard; Martha Ballard |
| Material Type: | Biography |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Laurel Ulrich |
| ISBN: | 0394568443 9780394568447 |
| OCLC Number: | 19811710 |
| Notes: | Includes index. Cover title: Martha Ballard, her diary. |
| Awards: | Pulitzer Prize, History, 1991. |
| Description: | x, 444 p. : maps ; 22 cm. |
| Contents: | Introduction: a great sea A going -- August 1787: Exceeding dangeroulsly ill -- September 1799: warpt a piece -- October 1789: Mrs Foster has sworn a Rape on a number of men -- November 1792: Matrimonial writes -- December 1797: Birth 50. Birth 51 -- January 1796: find my house up in arms -- February 1801: A desection performed -- March 1804: what a scean had I to go at Evening -- April 1806: Polly Purington here -- May 1809: Workt in my gardin -- Epilogue -- Appendix: medicinal ingredients mentioned in Martha Ballard's diary. |
| Other Titles: | Martha Ballard, her diary. |
| Responsibility: | Laurel Thatcher Ulrich. |
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Abstract:
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.
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