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

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Oxford University Press, 1983 - Social Science - 296 pages
Good Wives rescues our Puritan foremothers from anonymity by telling their astonishing real life stories. Idealized as meek, patient, prayerful, and other-worldly, these New England women emerge from Ulrich's study as hard-working traders, diplomatic negotiators in the Indian wars, skilled gossips, passionate wives, and occasionally murderers, adulteresses, and thieves.

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Part One BATHSHEBA II
11
Part Two EVE
87
Part Three JAEL
165
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