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    Book Title
    A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary,
    Genre
    Politics & Social Sciences
    Topic
    Women's Studies
    Narrative Type
    Nonfiction
    Intended Audience
    Adult
    Inscribed
    NO
    ISBN
    9780679733768
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    Product Identifiers

    Publisher
    Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
    ISBN-10
    0679733760
    ISBN-13
    9780679733768
    eBay Product ID (ePID)
    170601

    Product Key Features

    Number of Pages
    464 Pages
    Publication Name
    Midwife's Tale : the Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812 (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
    Language
    English
    Subject
    Women, United States / Revolutionary Period (1775-1800), General, Women's Studies, Gynecology & Obstetrics, Customs & Traditions
    Publication Year
    1991
    Type
    Textbook
    Subject Area
    Social Science, Biography & Autobiography, Medical, History
    Author
    Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
    Format
    Trade Paperback

    Dimensions

    Item Height
    1 in
    Item Weight
    12.1 Oz
    Item Length
    8 in
    Item Width
    5.2 in

    Additional Product Features

    Intended Audience
    Trade
    LCCN
    90-055674
    TitleLeading
    A
    Dewey Edition
    20
    Reviews
    "A truly talented historian unravels the fascinating life of a community that is so foreign, and yet so similar to our own." -- The New York Times Book Review "Expertly executed and endlessly interesting. An offbeat gem of scholarship." -- Washington Post Book World "A marvelously nuanced, subtle, and unillusioned portrayal of one woman's life in early America. It has the makings of a classic." --Stephen Innes, University of Virginia "It takes a historian of extraordinary persistence, skill, and empathy to recognized [Martha Ballard's] diary as something of a buried treasure and to painstakingly unearth its gems.... Ulrich has recognized Ballard's great spirit, and has given to us the gift of a life worth knowing." -- Philadelphia Inquirer, "A major source through which we can vicariously experience the rural life of early New England." --Carl N. Degler, The New York Times Book Review
    Illustrated
    Yes
    Dewey Decimal
    974.1/6 B
    Synopsis
    PULITZER PRIZE WINNER - Drawing on the diaries of one woman in eighteenth-century Maine, "A truly talented historian unravels the fascinating life of a community that is so foreign, and yet so similar to our own" ( The New York Times Book Review). 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, 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., WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE 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, 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., PULITZER PRIZE WINNER.Drawing on the diaries of one woman in eighteenth-century Maine,"A truly talented historian unravels the fascinating life of a community that is so foreign, and yet so similar to our own" ( The New York Times Book Review). 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, 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.
    LC Classification Number
    F29.H15U47 1991

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