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Author/Contributor(s): |
Ulrich, Laurel Thatcher
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Publisher: |
Vintage
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Date: |
06/04/1991
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Binding: |
Paperback
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Condition: |
NEW
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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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