A Midwife's Tale Author:Laurel Thatcher Ulrich A marvelous exposition of the diary of an ordinary woman who turns out to be quite extraordinary. The brief record of her life, in Laurel Ulrich's expert hands, becomes a guide not only to early medicine and housekeeping, but to debt, religion, family relations, the labor system, marriage and courtship, court practices, and above all the nature... more » of female identity. All of this is made concrete and real in the life of one woman living on the Maine frontier.« less