Cover of Good wives

Good wives

image and reality in the lives of women in northern New England, 1650-1750

by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

1982 296 pages eng

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.

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