A Midwife's Tale
Eighteenth-Century America Through a Woman's Eyes
7.8
English / 89min. / 1998
SYNOPSIS
To understand eighteenth-century America through a woman's eyes, historian and author Laurel Thatcher Ulrich spent eight years working through Martha Ballard's massive but cryptic diary. "A Midwife's Tale" chronicles the interwoven stories of two remarkable women: an eighteenth-century midwife and healer and the twentieth-century historian who brought her words to light.
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