Good wives
Subtitle: image and reality in the lives of women in northern New England, 1650-1750
By: Laurel Thatcher Ulrich.
Edition: 1st Vintage Books ed.
Publisher: Vintage Books
Published: 1991
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 296
Subjects: Women -- New England -- History; Women -- New England -- Social conditions
Description: Examines the lives of women in northern New England in the century from 1650 to 1750, discussing issues of housekeeping, childbearing, churchgoing, and other triumphs and tragedies of everyday life.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [277]-281) and index.
Reprint. Originally published: New York : Knopf, 1982.