A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812Modern · History, Nonfiction, Biography
A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812
1990 · 444 pages · Nonfiction
38
Modern
★ 3.96 on Goodreads · 10K ratings
≈ 11 hours to read · about 3 weeks at 30 minutes a day
Is it worth reading?
Pulitzer Prize (History) winner (1991). 3.96★ from 10K Goodreads ratings.
By the numbers
38Must-Read Score
- Critics53 out of 100 · counts 35%+21
- Readers29 out of 100 · counts 50%+17
- Buzz0 out of 100 · counts 15%+0
Buzz rewards prizes and lists from the last few years, so older books start at zero.
Where it ranks
- #155 of the 207 memoirs and biographies we rank
- #184 of the 220 history books we rank
- #268 of the 318 modern books we rank
- #955 of the 1,344 books we rank
Won
- Pulitzer Prize (History) winner (1991)
Reads as
True story
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