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Jan 19, 1998 · "A Midwife's Tale," produced by Laurie Kahn-Leavitt and directed by Richard P. Rogers, chronicles the interwoven stories of two remarkable women: an eighteenth-century midwife...
Aug 28, 2015 · 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...
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- Richard P. Rogers
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A Midwife's Tale. In 1785, Martha Ballard began a diary, faithfully recording the weather, her daily household tasks, her midwifery duties and incidents that reveal the turmoil of a new nation. When historian Laurel Thatcher Ulrich unearthed Ballard's diary, she was immediately captivated.
Dramatization of the Pulitzer Prize-winning book about Martha Ballard, a midwife and mother in the wilds of Maine during the decades following the American Revolution. Ballard, kept a 27-year diary, from which Laurel Thatcher Ulrich wrote her book. An extraordinary woman, Ballard struggled...
- Richard P Rogers
- Jonathan Glasser
A Midwife's Tale 1997 1h 39m Drama List Reviews New Englander Martha Ballard (Kaiulani Lee) keeps a diary from 1785-1812 of her experiences delivering babies and settling disputes.
- Drama
Unfolding like a detective story, A Midwife’s Tale takes its viewers along the same journey that historian Laurel Ulrich experienced. The film unfolds over a 27-year period in a small, Maine town during the turbulent decades following the American Revolution.
