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.
History,Nonfiction,Biography,North American Hi...,American History,Historical,Womens,Autobiography,Memoir,Biography Memoir,Feminism,Medical
A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812