A Midwife's Tale - The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812

Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

Vintage

1991

464 páginas

15h 28m

ISBN-10: 0679733760

The diary of a midwife and herbalist reveals the prevalence of violence, crime and premarital sex in rural 18th-century New England. "Fleshing out this midwife's bare entries with interpretive essays . . . Ulrich marvelously illuminates women's status, the history of medicine and daily life in the early Republic