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

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

Author: Laurel Thatcher Ulrich.
Publisher: Vintage
Pages: 336
Publication Date: 1991-06-04
Edition: Reissue
Binding: Paperback
MSRP: 13.99
ISBN13: 9780679732570
ISBN: 0679732578
Other ISBN: 9780307772978
Other ISBN Binding: printisbn
Language: en
Store Location: History
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This enthralling work of scholarship strips awayÂ 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.