Good Wives: Image and Reality in the Lives of Women in Northern New England, 1650-1750

by Ulrich, Laurel Thatcher
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ISBN: 9780679732570
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This enthralling work of scholarship strips away abstractions to reveal the hidden--and not always stoic--face of the "goodwives" of colonial America. In these pages we encounter the awesome burdens--and the considerable power--of a New England housewife's domestic life and witness her occasional forays into the world of men. We see her borrowing from her neighbors, loving her husband, raising--and, all too often, mourning--her children, and even attaining fame as a heroine of frontier conflicts or notoriety as a murderess. Painstakingly researched, lively with scandal and homely detail, Good Wives is history at its best.
  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Author: Ulrich, Laurel Thatcher
  • ISBN: 9780679732570
  • Condition: Used
  • Dimensions: 8.02 x 0.69
  • Number Of Pages: 336
  • Publication Year: 1991

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