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1. • • "A Midwife's Tale," produced by Laurie Kahn-Leavitt and directed by Richard P. Rogers, 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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   What is the movie a midwife's tale about?

   • Also called A Midwife’s Tale, the film interwove Ballard’s adventures with the scholar’s detective work and narration. For readers just encountering Ballard’s journal, Ulrich advises, “Opening a diary for the first time is like walking into a room full of strangers.

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   Is a midwife's tale based on a true story?

   • A Midwife’s Tale was based on Ballard’s cryptic diary that she kept diligently for more than twenty-seven years between 1785 and 1812—9,965 days to be exact. Ulrich encountered the diary accidently while doing research at the Maine State Library. Unlike previous historians who had disregarded the diary, she saw something extraordinary.

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   Who wrote a midwife's tale?

   • "A Midwife's Tale," produced by Laurie Kahn-Leavitt and directed by Richard P. Rogers, 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. Ulrich unearthed Ballard's diary in the Maine State Library and was immediately captivated.

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   What is the story of Call the Midwife's midwives?

   • Call the Midwife is a drama about the lives of a group of midwives who care for expectant mothers in the East End of London during the 1950s. Based on Jennifer Worth's best-selling memoirs.

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   Why is midwifery a good job?

   • But as the girls grew into their teens, they began to weave, and that's an advantage for Martha, because if they're there, doing the milking and the washing, she can go out and deliver babies, and midwifery is the best paid of the female occupations.

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3. www.blueberryhillproductions.com › a-midwifes-taleA Midwife's Tale - Blueberry Hill Productions

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   A Midwife's Tale (adapted from the Pulitzer Prize winning book) unfolds like a detective story -- the true tale of two women, two hundred years apart, linked by the diary one of them left behind. In the film, we follow author Laurel Ulrich as she deciphers the massive but cryptic diary of 18th century midwife Martha Ballard.

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   New Englander Martha Ballard (Kaiulani Lee) keeps a diary from 1785-1812 of her experiences delivering babies and settling disputes.

   • Category: Drama
   • Actors: Kaiulani Lee

   • Director: Richard P. Rogers

6. www.themoviedb.org › movie › 354559-a-midwife-s-taleA Midwife's Tale (1998) — The Movie Database (TMDB)

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   Jan 19, 1998 · Overview. 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.

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   Unfolding like a detective story, A Midwife’s Tale takes its viewers along the same journey that historian Laurel Ulrich experienced. The film unfolds over a 27-year period in a small, Maine town during the turbulent decades following the American Revolution.

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   A docudrama adaptation of Ulrich’s Pulitzer-winning book, which was based on thousands of entries in the journal of Martha Ballard, a Maine midwife, in the late 1700’s and early 1800’s.

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   "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. About the movie.