false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166674150m/15594.jpg 15594 2 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. 1629653 1990 A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812 (Vintage Books) total:834|5:269|4:325|3:181|2:46|1:13| 834 3293 1387 181 5 2 false false Sat Mar 07 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Oct 08 22:12:32 -0700 2008 Mon Mar 09 09:53:30 -0700 2009
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In it, Ms. Ulrich has skillfully woven diary entries with local history records in order to create a fuller picture of life in a small ...more...]]> 4 1 false false Thu Feb 26 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Feb 07 13:41:21 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 26 07:28:08 -0800 2009 1
Martha Ballard avoided this problem neatly by keeping her entries brief,...more...]]> 4 1 false false Sat Mar 07 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Feb 07 19:49:36 -0800 2009 Wed Mar 25 06:46:10 -0700 2009 “A man works from sun to sun, but a woman’s work is never done.”

Martha Moore was born in 1735 in the town of Oxford, MA. She married Ephraim Ballard in 1754 and gave birth to nine children, lost three of them to diphtheria and eventually died in Maine, in 1812 at the age of 77.
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