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

ISBN: 0679732578

Author: Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

Condition: New

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.

• 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 | "Book cover image may be different than what appears on the actual book."