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

by Ulrich, Laurel Thatcher

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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.

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  • Knopf Doubleday Publishin Brand
  • Jun 4, 1991 Pub Date:
  • 9780679732570 ISBN-13:
  • 0679732578 ISBN-10:
  • 336 Pages
  • English Language
  • 7.98 in * 5.24 in * 0.8 in Dimensions:
  • 1 lb Weight: