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Good Wives : Image and Reality in the Lives of Women in Northern New England, 1650-1750
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Overview
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.
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- ISBN-13: 9780679732570
- ISBN-10: 0679732578
- Publisher: Vintage
- Publish Date: June 1991
- Dimensions: 8.02 x 5.17 x 0.69 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.75 pounds
- Page Count: 336
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