Winter Friends
Subtitle: Women Growing Old in the New Republic, 1785-1835 (Women in American History)
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: November 1, 1989
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 199
ISBN-13: 9780252016561
Subjects: Women's studies; Women In The U.S.; History - General History; History: American; USA; Gerontology; United States - 19th Century; Women's Studies - History; Social Science / Women's Studies; 18th century; 19th century; History; Older women; Social conditions; United States
First sentence: When fifty-five-year-old Molly Cooper scribbled these pathetic lines commemorating forty years of marital misery, she saw no need to hide the hard work and pain that characterized her daily life in colonial Long Island.