Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

A Midwife’s Tale by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich examines the 1785-1812 diary of Martha Ballard, a midwife in Hallowell, Maine. Ballard composed concise daily entries that chronicle her domestic work, deliveries and nursing, as well as community events. These entries, coupled with Ulrich’s extensive archival research, show the complexity of the female economy and its interactions with the mercantile economy of the late 18th century. Ulrich presents the masculine and feminine economic interactions…

This is the newest of all the texts used for this study and there was not much that Miller added to the knowledge on the subject as a whole. She utilized Ulrich 's work heavily for her text. Where Miller 's text stands out is her discussions on Native American women and individual women 's stories. Where other authors just discussed popular women of the colonial era such as Pocahontas and Anne Hutchison (who…

perceives them, but through three completely perspectives. In Laurel Thatcher Ulrich’s “The Ways of Her Household”, the author takes a look at women’s domestic roles as a way of displaying the immensely difficult and crucial work that women of the colonial age performed in their only sphere of influence: the home. Ulrich describes in detail the…

“Well-behaved women seldom make history.”- Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History. A few women who change history are Cleopatra, Queen Elizabeth I, Susan B Anthony, and Michelle Obama. Without these women our society might not be the way it is now. Here’s the story about four brave women who changed history not only with their appearances, but with their actions. Cleopatra was born in 69 B.C. She became the queen of Egypt in 51 B.C. when she was only 18 years old.…

the revolution was a juncture in the establishment and maintenance of their freedom. Women were left on the home front to cope with many adverse conditions. In an essay titled, Roles Of Women In The Economic Success of Colonial New England, Laurel Thatcher Ulrich writes, “The doctrine of the time called for a woman to fulfill the roles of housewife, deputy husband, consort, mother, mistress, neighbor, and Christian all while remaining anonymous.” x Without all contributions women had made to…