McMaster Girl is a real person portrayed by Jennifer S. Rose in the TV series American Experience (based on a true story).
They appear in 1 episodes out of a total of 387 aired so far
Episodes1
A Midwife's Tale
episode S10.E3 january 1998A docudrama adaptation of Ulrich's Pulitzer-winning book, which was based on thousands of entries in the journal of Martha Ballard, a Maine midwife, in the late 1700's and early 1800's. The movie intercuts between reenactments of Ballard doing her Maine midwifery and related tasks, and Ulrich in her eight years of research on her book; in the end, clear comparisons are made between the work of the two women.
