Good Wives

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Good Wives is written by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich and published by Vintage. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0679732578 (ISBN 10) and 9780679732570 (ISBN 13).

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 notoriety as a murderess. Painstakingly researched, lively with scandal and homely detail, Good Wives is history at its best.