A Midwife's Tale
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A Midwife's Tale by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
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.
Sugar City, Idaho, is where Laurel Thatcher Ulrich was born. She graduated from the University of New Hampshire, the University of Utah, and Simmons College with a bachelor's degree. Laurel worked on the PBS documentary based on A Midwife's Tale as a MacArthur Fellow. She is the Mormon History Association's immediate past president.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780679733768 |
| ISBN 10 | 0679733760 |
| Title | A Midwife's Tale |
| Author | Laurel Thatcher Ulrich |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Random House USA Inc |
| Year published | 1991-06-04 |
| Number of pages | 464 |
| Prizes | Winner of Bancroft Prize 1991 |
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