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Genre/Form: | Biography Biographies |
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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; Martha Ballard |
Material Type: | Biography |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich; Cairns Collection of American Women Writers. |
ISBN: | 0394568443 9780394568447 9780679733768 0679733760 |
OCLC Number: | 19811710 |
Notes: | Cover title: Martha Ballard, her diary. |
Awards: | Pulitzer Prize, History, 1991. American Historical Association Joan Kelly Memorial Prize, 1990. |
Description: | x, 444 pages : 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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