Good Wives: Image And Reality In The Lives Of Women In Northern New England, 1650-1750

by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

2021-01-10 06:14:13

This enthralling work of scholarship strips away those 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... Read more
This enthralling work of scholarship strips away those 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. Less

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File size7.98 X 5.24 X 0.8 in
Print pages336
PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date June 4, 1991
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9780679732570
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich taught for fifteen years at University of New Hampshire before moving to Harvard in 1995. She is the author of many books and articles on early American history including A Midw...

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