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

This enthralling work of scholarship strips away those abstractions to reveal the hidden -- and not always stoic -- face of the "goodwives" of... Comments: Good overall description of the books, and was delivered in a short amount of... I've always been curious about the "history behind the history": while the Big... I am a passionate fan of A Midwife's Tale, and so expected to enjoy Good Wives.... "Pots and pans" history. So that's what this stuff is called. If that is... I am a senior in college majoring in history and I just finished writing a... Read More »

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