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Attracting on the diaries of one woman in 18th-century Maine, this intimate background illuminates the medical methods, household economies, spiritual rivalries, and sexual mores of the New England frontier. Between 1785 and 1812, a midwife and healer called Martha Ballard held a diary that saved her arduous work (in 27 years she attended 816 births) as well as her local life in Hallowell, Maine. On the basis of that diary, Laurel Thatcher Ulrich offers us a romantic and densely thought portrait, not only of the industrious and reticent Martha Ballard but of her contemporary society. At once exciting and impeccably scholarly, A Midwife's Tale is a triumph of background on a individuals scale.
