A Midwife's Tale (Eighteenth-Century America Through a Woman's Eyes)
Genres: Documentary, History, TV Movie
89 mins
1998
78%
Overview
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.
