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
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...
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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.
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