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Good Wives: Image and Reality in the Lives of Women in Northern New England, 1650-1750 Laurel Thatcher Ulrich Reissue edition
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Good Wives: Image and Reality in the Lives of Women in Northern New England, 1650-1750
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
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.
336 pages
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | June 4, 1991 |
| ISBN13 | 9780679732570 |
| Publishers | Random House USA Inc |
| Pages | 336 |
| Dimensions | 133 × 202 × 20 mm · 340 g |
| Language | English |
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