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

Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

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.

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The Ezra Klein Show

He praised the book as a beautifully crafted nonfiction work about a Maine midwife who meticulously recorded deliveries between 1785 and 1812.

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The one that I keep coming back to for tremendous inspiration is by a then University of New Hampshire professor named Laurel Ulrich. And she wrote a book called A Midwife's Tale.

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He praised the book as a beautifully crafted nonfiction work about a Maine midwife who meticulously recorded deliveries between 1785 and 1812.

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The one that I keep coming back to for tremendous inspiration is by a then University of New Hampshire professor named Laurel Ulrich. And she wrote a book called A Midwife's Tale.

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