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Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
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Good Wives: Image and Reality in the Lives of Women in Northern New England, 1650-1750 |
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English |
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Paperback |
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336 |
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1991-06-04 |
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0679732578 |
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Vintage |
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0.79 pounds |
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0.7 x 5.16 x 7.97 inches |
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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.
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