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A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812 by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
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emotional
informative
lighthearted
reflective
relaxing
slow-paced
3.75
This was interesting, but I def recommend the audiobook because of its length. It's such careful research, and I really appreciate that Ms. Ulrich was doing the research when other folks seemed to just be writing Ms. Ballard off as an ordinary person. Which she was. But she was also saving lives on the regular and delivering so many babies and also doing a lot of falling off her horse. It's absolutely wild how certain diary entries could have very well been written today. It's terrifying how treatment of women and their skills seems to have actually gotten worse in a lot of ways. I love that this diary was made so much more accessible than it ever would have been sitting in the ancient section of the library in Maine.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Blood, Child death, Rape, Colonisation, Death, Medical content, Murder, and Pregnancy
Moderate: Violence, Vomit, Alcohol, Miscarriage, Chronic illness, Excrement, Sexual assault, Racism, and Sexual content
Minor: Abortion, Confinement, Racial slurs, and Religious bigotry
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