Good Wives: Image and Reality in the Lives of Women in Northern New England, 1650-1750 (MP3 CD) (ISBN-13: 9798200265541)

This enthralling work of scholarship strips away abstractions to reveal the hidden--and not always stoic--face of the goodwives of colonial America. In this book 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
ISBN-13: 9798200265541
Publisher: Tantor Audio
Language: English
Published: 02/04/2020
Format: MP3 CD