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

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Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

Good Wives

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

Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

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English

Vintage Books
04 June 1991

Sociology & anthropology

This enthralling work of scholarship strips awayabstractions 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.

By: Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
Imprint: Vintage Books
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 202mm, Width: 133mm, Spine: 20mm
Weight: 278g
ISBN: 9780679732570
ISBN 10: 0679732578
Pages: 336
Publication Date: 04 June 1991
Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , ELT Advanced , A / AS level
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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 Afterword

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 bookA 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 for Good Wives: Image and Reality in the Lives of Women in Northern New England, 1650-1750

[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<br><br>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. <br><br> 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