Reading Level
What is the reading level of A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812?
Analysing the books in the series, we estimate that the reading level of A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812 is 7th and 8th grade.
Expert Readability Tests for
A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812
| Readability Test | Reading Level |
|---|---|
| Flesch Kincaid Scale | Grade 7 |
| SMOG Index | Grade 10 |
| Coleman Liau Index | Grade 9 |
| Dale Chall Readability Score | Grade 7 |
Reading Time
9 hrs 45 mins
How long to read A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812?
The estimated word count of A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812 is 146,010 words.
A person reading at the average speed of 250 words/min, will finish the book in 9 hrs 45 mins. At a slower speed of 150 words/min, they will finish it in 16 hrs 14 mins. At a faster speed of 450 words/min, they will finish it in 5 hrs 25 mins.
| A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812 - 146,010 words | ||
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| Reading Speed | Time to Read | |
| Slow | 150 words/min | 16 hrs 14 mins |
| Average | 250 words/min | 9 hrs 45 mins |
| Fast | 450 words/min | 5 hrs 25 mins |
- Authors
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Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
More about A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812
146,010 words
Word Count
for A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812
15 hours and 42 minutes
Audiobook length
Description
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZEDrawing on the diaries of one woman in eighteenth-century Maine, this intimate history illuminates the medical practices, household economies, religious rivalries, and sexual mores of the New England frontier.Between 1785 and 1812 a midwife and healer named Martha Ballard kept a diary that recorded her arduous work (in 27 years she attended 816 births) as well as her domestic life in Hallowell, Maine. On the basis of that diary, Laurel Thatcher Ulrich gives us an intimate and densely imagined portrait, not only of the industrious and reticent Martha Ballard but of her society. At once lively and impeccably scholarly, A Midwife's Tale is a triumph of history on a human scale.