Good Wives

by ULRICH, LAUREL THATCHER

• ISBN13: 9780679732570
• ISBN10: 0679732578
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 1991-06-04
• Publisher: Vintage

Summary

This enthralling work of scholarship strips away those 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.

Author Biography

Laurel Thatcher Ulrich received the Pulitzer Prize, the Bancroft Prize, and the American Historical Association's Joan Kelly and John H. Dunning Prizes for 1990 for A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on her Diary, 1785-1812. She is Professor of History at the University of New Hampshire.

Table of Contents

Bathsheba

The Ways of Her Household

Deputy Husbands

A Friendly Neighbor

Pretty Gentlewoman

Eve

The Serpent Beguiled Me

Consort

Travail

Mother of All Living

Jael

Blessed Above Women

Viragoes

Captives

Daughters of Zion

Afterword

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