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

Narrator: Susan Ericksen

Unabridged: 11 hr 21 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 02/04/2020

Category: History - Women


Synopsis

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.

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