A biography based on the annual of Martha Ballard, housewife, midwife, healer, who lived in and around the Kennebec River towns of Hallowell and Augusta, Maine, gives a rare picture of ordinary life in preindustrial America.
A novel that spans one hundred years and is set in Virginia during the Civil War and a century beyond explores the brutal legacy of violence and exploitation in American society as it examines the fates of the inhabitants of Beauvais Plantation outside of Richmond, Virginia and their descendants.
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