Good Wives: Image and Reality in the Lives of Women in Northern New England, 1650-1750

by	Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

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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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Weight	0.28 kg
Dimensions	1.78 × 13.47 × 20.12 cm
PubliCanadanadation City/Country	USA
by	Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
Format	Paperback
Language	English
Pages	336
Publisher	Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Year Published	1991-6-4
Imprint	Vintage
ISBN 10	0679732578
About The Author	LAUREL THATCHER ULRICH was born in Sugar City, Idaho. She holds degrees from the University of New Hampshire, University of Utah, and Simmons College. She is 300th Anniversary University Professor at Harvard University and past president of the American Historical Association. As a MacArthur Fellow, Ulrich worked on the PBS documentary based on her Pulitzer Prize-winning book A Midwife's Tale. Her work is also featured on an award-winning website called dohistory.org. She is immediate past president of the Mormon History Association. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
	"[Ulrich] makes a modern reader understand what it would have been like to have been born female in early New England…a truly remarkable achievement." — Mary Beth Norton, Cornell UniversityA gravestone in northern New England proclaims that a woman was "Eminent for Holiness…Prudence, Sincerity…Meakness…Weanedness From ye World…Publick-Spiritedness …Faithfulness & Charity.""A major addition to our historical understanding of women in colonial New England…a path-breaking depiction of wives and mothers." — Kathryn Kish Sklar, S.U.N.Y., Binghamton
Table Of Content	Part One: Bathsheba1. The Ways of Her Household2. Deputy Husbands3. A Friendly Neighbor4. Pretty GentlewomanPart Two: Eve5. The Serpent Beguiled Me6. Consort7. Travail8. Mother of All LivingPart Three: Jael9. Blessed Above Women10. Viragoes11. Captives12. Daughters of ZionAfterword

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