A Midwife’s Tale

Review of A Midwife’s Tale (1998) by oxfordcomma: 👍 3/5

While this is not cinema by any means, it’s a decent docudrama. I recently read The Frozen River and was interested to learn that the book protagonist was a real person.

What I found really interesting was seeing how Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, the historian pieced together information from Martha Ballard’s diary and other sources to figure out what was going on. To this day, historians have a hard time doing research on women because there just isn’t a ton of material. Their existence just wasn’t valued and there is less in the record to work with.