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ULRICH, Laurel Thatcher (1938 – )

ULRICH, Laurel Thatcher (1938 – )

1938 –

1 entries in the GMN corpus.

Image source Ben P L · Laurel Thatcher Ulrich · CC BY-SA 2.0

1990 CE

#7883

A midwife's tale. The life of Martha Ballard, based on her diary 1785-1812.

Between 1785 and 1812 a midwife and healer named Martha Ballard kept a diary that recorded her arduous work (in 27 years she attended 816 births) as well as her domestic life in Hallowell, Maine.