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Good Wives by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

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Good Wives

Author
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
Narrator
Susan Ericksen
Publisher
Tantor Media, Inc
Publish Date
4 February 2020
Run Time
11 hours 21 minutes
Format
Audiobook
Genre
History, Social and cultural history, Gender studies: women and girls, Society and culture: general, History of the Americas, Local history
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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.

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Author
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
Narrator
Susan Ericksen
Duration
11 hours 21 minutes
Release Date
4 February 2020
ISBN
9781494548834
Format
Audiobook
Publisher
Tantor Media, Inc
Genre
History, Social and cultural history, Gender studies: women and girls, Society and culture: general, History of the Americas, Local history

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.

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