A Midwife's Tale (1998)
Eighteenth-Century America Through a Woman's Eyes
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.
- Date of release
- 1998-01-19
- TMDB
- 8.2 / 10 (3)
- Runtime
- 1h 29m
- Genres
- Documentary, History, TV Movie
- Director
- Richard P. Rogers
Casting
- Kaiulani Lee — Martha Ballard
- Andrew Elvis Miller — Rev. Isaac Foster
- J. Smith-Cameron — Mrs. Howard
- Laurel Thatcher Ulrich — Self
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