A Midwife’s Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812 (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
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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.
ASIN : B004FGMD9G
Publisher : Vintage; Reprint edition (December 22, 2010)
Publication date : December 22, 2010
Language : English
File size : 4912 KB
Text-to-Speech : Enabled
Screen Reader : Supported
Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
X-Ray : Not Enabled
Word Wise : Enabled
Print length : 501 pages
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Customers find the book well-told and interesting. They appreciate the family life and insights into women’s roles in early America. The visual style is described as vivid and eye-opening. Readers feel drawn in by the emotions expressed in the diary. However, some find the pacing repetitive and boring at times.
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