A Midwife's Tale
19/01/1998
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.
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Kaiulani Lee
as Martha Ballard
Andrew Elvis Miller
as Rev. Isaac Foster
J. Smith-Cameron
as Mrs. Howard
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
as Self
