Good Wives, Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
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

Author: Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

Narrator: Susan Ericksen

Unabridged: 11 hr 21 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 02/04/2020

Categories: Nonfiction, 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.

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. As a MacArthur Fellow, Laurel worked on the PBS documentary based on 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.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Mary on April 21, 2010

Very interesting and accessible. Ulrich doesn't get too theoretical and doesn't seem to have an "-ism" driving her work. I don't recall shaking my head much at interpretive stretches. I feel like I have a better understanding of what life was like for my ancestors 300 years ago.......more

Goodreads review by Luthien on June 09, 2016

Also on my blog, Luthien Reviews In Good Wives (a play on the title “Goodwife,” or “Goody,” commonly used by many Puritans in New England to refer to a married woman), Laurel Thatcher Ulrich explores the expectations and conventions of colonial women in Maine, New Hampshire, and northern Massachusett......more

Goodreads review by Angela on September 15, 2019

This caught my eye at a bookstore in Salem, Massachusetts, and it was worth the read. Easily organized into sections related to the different roles women played, Ulrich provides bite-sized nuggets of women's lives in New England in the early colonial days. My yearnings for greater detail will have t......more

Goodreads review by Elizabeth on July 09, 2024

Rich in history and very clear that Ulrich did a lot of digging in primary sources. She kept things interesting for the most part and had many pithy or wise sentences that I had to mark. Great read.......more

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