Good Wives: Image and Reality in the Lives of Women in Northern New England, 1650-1750
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Good Wives: Image and Reality in the Lives of Women in Northern New England, 1650-1750
Lowest New Price: $6.92List Price: $16.00 Description: 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. Publisher: Vintage Release Date: 1991-06-04 --> Find out more about "Good Wives: Image and Reality in the Lives of Women in Northern New England, 1650-1750" at Amazon.com or Order Now |
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