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

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

Paperback

General World HistoryWomen's Studies

Publisher Price: $17.00

ISBN10: 0679732578
ISBN13: 9780679732570
Publisher: Vintage
Published: Jun 4 1991
Pages: 336
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.69 Width: 5.17 Depth: 8.02
Language: English
This enthralling work of scholarship strips away 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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