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A midwife's tale : the life of Martha Ballard, based on her diary, 1785-1812
Title:
A midwife's tale : the life of Martha Ballard, based on her diary, 1785-1812
ISBN:
9780679733768
Edition:
1st Vintage Books ed.
Publication Information:
New York : Vintage Books, 1991.
Physical Description:
x, 444 p. : maps ; 21 cm.
Contents:
"a great sea A going" -- August 1787: "Exceeding dangerously ill" -- September 1788: "warpt a piece" -- October 1789: "Mrs. Foster has sworn a rape on a number of men" -- November 1792: "matrimonial writes" -- December 1793: "Birth 50. Birth 51" -- January 1796: "find my house up in arms" -- February 1801: "a desection performed" -- March 1804: "what a scean had I to go at evening" -- April 1806: "Polly Purington here" -- May 1809: "workt in my gardin."
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