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A midwife's tale, the life of Martha Ballard, based on her diary, 1785-1812, Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

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A midwife's tale, the life of Martha Ballard, based on her diary, 1785-1812, Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 366-411) and index

resource.biographical

individual biography

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maps

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

A midwife's tale

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

22911420

Responsibility statement

Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

Sub title

the life of Martha Ballard, based on her diary, 1785-1812

Summary

Presents the life of Martha Ballard, a midwife in Maine during the eighteenth century, by drawing on the detailed diary she kept for twenty-seven years of her life

Table Of Contents

"a great sea A going" -- August 1787: "Exceeding dangerously ill" -- September 1788: "warpt a piece" -- October 1789: "Mrs. Foster has sworn a rape on a number of men" -- November 1792: "matrimonial writes" -- December 1793: "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."

Target audience

adult

resource.variantTitle

Midwives tale

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