Good Wives: Image and Reality in the Lives of Women in Northern New England, 1650-1750
This enthralling work of scholarship strips away abstractions to reveal the hiddenand not always stoicface of the "goodwives" of colonial America. In these pages we encounter the awesome burdensand the considerable powerof 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, raisingand, all too often, mourningher 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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Good Wives: Image and Reality in the Lives of Women in Northern New England, 1650-1750
This enthralling work of scholarship strips away abstractions to reveal the hiddenand not always stoicface of the "goodwives" of colonial America. In these pages we encounter the awesome burdensand the considerable powerof 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, raisingand, all too often, mourningher 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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ISBN-13: | 9780679732570 |
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Publisher: | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group |
Publication date: | 06/04/1991 |
Edition description: | Reissue |
Pages: | 336 |
Product dimensions: | 5.27(w) x 7.97(h) x 0.74(d) |
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