Good Wives
Image and Reality in the Lives of Women in Northern New England, 1650-1750
- Paperback
336 pages
- Release Date
4 June 1991
Summary
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…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780679732570 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0679732578 |
| Author: | Laurel Thatcher Ulrich |
| Publisher: | Random House USA Inc |
| Imprint: | Vintage Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 336 |
| Release Date: | 4 June 1991 |
| Weight: | 283g |
| Dimensions: | 201mm x 132mm x 20mm |
| Series: | Vintage |
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Critics Review
”[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
About The Author
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, 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. She is immediate past president of the Mormon History Association. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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