A Midwife's Tale

Eighteenth-Century America Through a Woman's Eyes

• Documentary
• History
• TV Movie

• 89 Mins
• 1998
• en

• star7.8/ 10

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.