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Jan 19, 1998 · "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...
Jan 19, 1998 · By Megan Rosenfeld. January 19, 1998 at 12:00 a.m. EST. One reason women are virtually absent from official history is that they were working so doggone hard there was no time to write about...
This interview was compiled from three interviews conducted by Laurie Kahn-Leavitt in September 1991, October 1993, and March 1994 in the course of writing the script for the film.
May 1, 1999 · She spent many nights away from her husband and children, caring for the sick and women in labor. She had a few buried secrets, however, and some worries that would not be noticed in a casual reading of the diary.
Producer Laurie Kahn-Leavitt talks about the making of the film A Midwife's Tale, and Historian Laurel Thatcher Ulrich discusses the importance of Martha Ballard's diary and what it reveals...
Jan 18, 1998 · Based on the 27-year diary of an 18th-century midwife, Martha Ballard, who was in her day the modern equivalent of a healer, nurse, physician, mortician and pharmacist as well as wife and mother,...
May 1, 1995 · Producer Laurie Kahn-Leavitt doesn't think so, and neither does the National Endowment for the Humanities, which recently awarded $900,000 to her proposal for a film adaptation of the Pulitzer-Prize winning book, A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary 1785-1812.
