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

Name: Good Wives Image and Reality in the Lives of Women in Northern New England, 1650-1750
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ISBN: 9780679732570

ISBN-10: 0679732578

ISBN-13: 9780679732570

Edition: N/A

Authors: Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

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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.

Book details

List price: $17.00
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 6/4/1991
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 5.19" wide x 7.91" long x 0.72" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English




Bathsheba



The Ways of Her Household



Deputy Husbands



A Friendly Neighbor



Pretty Gentlewoman



Eve



The Serpent Beguiled Me



Consort



Travail



Mother of All Living



Jael



Blessed Above Women



Viragoes



Captives



Daughters of Zion


Afterword