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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.
On the basis of a diary, Ulrich gives the reader an intimate and densely imagined portrait of the industrious and reticent Martha Ballard and her society--a portrait that sheds light on its medical practices, religious squabbles and sexual mores. A winner of the Pulitzer Prize.
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Kari Nord
reviewed A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812 on October 08, 2008 A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812
I read this book 15 years ago shortly after it won the Pulitzer, and it was amazing then, and I was equally impressed this time. In fact I was surprised as I read how much of it I could remember reading even that many years ago, so it must have made a deep impression.
I'm just in awe if LTU, the depth and breadth of information that she gleans from Martha Ballard's spare diary entries is mind boggling, for instance, she'll throw out a comparison of the number of people, male and female that MB mentions visiting in her community, then compares it to two other contemporary men's journals, the sheer amount of data she collected, the spread sheets she must have made, and to keep it all straight, to find meaning in it, to organize it into such a readable fascinating picture of a life. It's FReakIN' AWESOME!
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