Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
Birth date: July 11, 1938
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich's Books
This is an interesting history/biography that’s both accessible and scholarly. Ulrich uses the bare-bones journal of a midwife in early New England, kept from age about 50 through her late 70s, to illuminate the social history of early Maine, as well as Martha Ballard’s own life and family drama. Ul...
The use of Stanton, De Pizan, and Woolf to tie everything together is great. I would argue about her definition of well behaved as it applied to Judith Shakespeare, but still an interesting read.
This historiographical text examines the every day life of women in post-revolutionary America. It uses the diary of Martha Ballard as a lens from which to examine important but often unstudied aspects of life from this period. A must-read for any fan of women's history! If you've read my "about me...
Fascinating, well-written history of early American crafts and early American life.
I bailed out of this about 1/2 way through. It was too much like a dissertation and not enough like a book for me.
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