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Name: A Midwife's Tale
Full name: A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812
Author:
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
Year: 1990
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9780679733768
0679733760
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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