A Midwife's Tale - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Midwife's Tale write by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich. This book was released on 2010-12-22. A Midwife's Tale available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • Drawing on the diaries of one woman in eighteenth-century Maine, "A truly talented historian unravels the fascinating life of a community that is so foreign, and yet so similar to our own" (The New York Times Book Review). Between 1785 and 1812 a midwife and healer named Martha Ballard kept a diary that recorded her arduous work (in 27 years she attended 816 births) as well as her domestic life in Hallowell, Maine. On the basis of that diary, Laurel Thatcher Ulrich gives us an intimate and densely imagined portrait, not only of the industrious and reticent Martha Ballard but of her society. At once lively and impeccably scholarly, A Midwife's Tale is a triumph of history on a human scale.
Diary of a Midwife
Diary of a Midwife - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Diary of a Midwife write by Juliana van Olphen-Fehr. This book was released on 1998-09-24. Diary of a Midwife available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Based on the author's 13 years as a nurse-midwife, this book shows how women with low-risk pregnancies can be cared for by a midwife, allowing them to take control of the birth process and to avoid costly and traumatic interventions of drugs and surgery.
The Last Midwife
The Last Midwife - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Last Midwife write by Sandra Dallas. This book was released on 2015-09-29. The Last Midwife available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. With Sandra Dallas's incomparable gift for creating a sense of time and place and characters that capture your heart, The Last Midwife tells the story of family, community, and the secrets that can destroy and unite them. It is 1880 and Gracy Brookens is the only midwife in a small Colorado mining town where she has delivered hundreds, maybe thousands, of babies in her lifetime. The women of Swandyke trust and depend on Gracy, and most couldn't imagine getting through pregnancy and labor without her by their sides. But everything changes when a baby is found dead...and the evidence points to Gracy as the murderer. She didn't commit the crime, but clearing her name isn't so easy when her innocence is not quite as simple, either. She knows things, and that's dangerous. Invited into her neighbors' homes during their most intimate and vulnerable times, she can't help what she sees and hears. A woman sometimes says things in the birthing bed, when life and death seem suspended within the same moment. Gracy has always tucked those revelations away, even the confessions that have cast shadows on her heart. With her friends taking sides and a trial looming, Gracy must decide whether it's worth risking everything to prove her innocence. And she knows that her years of discretion may simply demand too high a price now...especially since she's been keeping more than a few dark secrets of her own.
The Plight of Feeling
The Plight of Feeling - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Plight of Feeling write by Julia A. Stern. This book was released on 2008-04-15. The Plight of Feeling available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. American novels written in the wake of the Revolution overflow with self-conscious theatricality and impassioned excess. In The Plight of Feeling, Julia A. Stern shows that these sentimental, melodramatic, and gothic works can be read as an emotional history of the early republic, reflecting the hate, anger, fear, and grief that tormented the Federalist era. Stern argues that these novels gave voice to a collective mourning over the violence of the Revolution and the foreclosure of liberty for the nation's noncitizens—women, the poor, Native and African Americans. Properly placed in the context of late eighteenth-century thought, the republican novel emerges as essentially political, offering its audience gothic and feminized counternarratives to read against the dominant male-authored accounts of national legitimation. Drawing upon insights from cultural history and gender studies as well as psychoanalytic, narrative, and genre theory, Stern convincingly exposes the foundation of the republic as an unquiet crypt housing those invisible Americans who contributed to its construction.
New Walk
New Walk - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook New Walk write by Ellie Durant. This book was released on 2018-10. New Walk available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A moving debut novel about midwifery, marijuana and abortion.
