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Good Wives

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

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

By Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

By Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

By Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

By Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

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    About Good Wives

    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.

    About Good Wives

    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.

    About Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

    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…. More about Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

    About Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

    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…. More about Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

    Product Details

    Category: Colonial/Revolutionary Period

    Paperback | $17.00
    Published by Vintage
    Jun 04, 1991 | 336 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780679732570

    Category: Colonial/Revolutionary Period

    Ebook | $13.99
    Published by Vintage
    Dec 29, 2010 | 336 Pages | ISBN 9780307772978

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    Praise

    "[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 University

    A 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 Contents


    Part One: Bathsheba
    1. The Ways of Her Household
    2. Deputy Husbands
    3. A Friendly Neighbor
    4. Pretty Gentlewoman

    Part Two: Eve
    5. The Serpent Beguiled Me
    6. Consort
    7. Travail
    8. Mother of All Living

    Part Three: Jael
    9. Blessed Above Women
    10. Viragoes
    11. Captives
    12. Daughters of Zion

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