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Good Wives by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
This enthralling work of scholarship strips away those 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.Sugar City, Idaho, is where Laurel Thatcher Ulrich was born. She graduated from the University of New Hampshire, the University of Utah, and Simmons College with a bachelor's degree. Laurel worked on the PBS documentary based on A Midwife's Tale as a MacArthur Fellow. She is the Mormon History Association's immediate past president.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780679732570 |
| ISBN 10 | 0679732578 |
| Title | Good Wives |
| Author | Laurel Thatcher Ulrich |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Random House USA Inc |
| Year published | 1991-06-04 |
| Number of pages | 336 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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