Ulrich, Laurel Thatcher.

A Midwife's Tale / Laurel Thatcher Ulrich. - New York : Vintage Books, 1990.

"a great sea A going" -- August 1787: "Exceeding dangerously ill" -- September 1788: "warpt a piece" -- October 1789: "Mrs. Foster has sworn a rape on a number of men" -- November 1792: "matrimonial writes" -- December 1793: "Birth 50. Birth 51" -- January 1796: "find my house up in arms" -- February 1801: "a desection performed" -- March 1804: "what a scean had I to go at evening" -- April 1806: "Polly Purington here" -- May 1809: "workt in my gardin."

Presents the life of Martha Ballard, a midwife in Maine during the eighteenth century, by drawing on the detailed diary she kept for twenty-seven years of her life.

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Ballard, Martha, 1735-1812.


Midwives--Maine--Hallowell--Biography.
Midwives--Biography.--Maine--Augusta
Personajes--Biografías.
Primera Jornada de Catalogación.


Hallowell (Me.)--Biography.
Augusta (Me.)--Biography.

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