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

Ulrich, Laurel Thatcher

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0679732578 ISBN 13 : 9780679732570

Editeur : Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 1991

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 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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

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 called dohistory.org. She is immediate past president of the Mormon History Association. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Date d'édition: 1991
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0679732578
• ISBN 13: 9780679732570
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 336
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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