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

A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812 image
ISBN-10:

0394568443

ISBN-13:

9780394568447

Edition: First Edition
Released: Mar 10, 1990
Publisher: KNOPF
Format: Hardcover, 444 pages
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Description:

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.


From the Trade Paperback edition.












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