In Article <3rttav$119 at newsbf02.news.aol.com> "mdddmddd at aol.com (Mdddmddd)" says:
> HISTORY BUFFS - AMERICAN
>> BOOKS ON:
> Confederate Nurses
> Women Civil War Doctors
> First Ladies
> Famous American Women
> Eleanore Roosevelt
> Apache Mothers and Daughters
> Letters of a Woman Homesteader
> Women At Work
> Childrearing In America (1750 - 1950)
> Amelia Earhart
I'd like to add another:
"A Midwife's Tale", the annotated diary of Martha Ballard, who was a
midwife in Maine soon after the War for Independence. I forget the name of
the author, but the book won the Pulitzer Prize for non-fiction. The
author also draws on other sources for Martha's village from her lifetime,
and reconstructs a fascinating view of life in the post-colonial period.
It may also be the earliest existing diary of a woman healer in the US,
but I don't know that for sure. Great book.
Kev