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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

Written by: Laurel Thatcher Thatcher Ulrich
Narrated by: Susan Ericksen
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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 this book, 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.

©1980, 1982 Laurel Thatcher Ulrich (P)2020 Tantor Gender Studies United States Women Marriage Colonial Period Colonial Life

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