Good Wives: Image and Reality in the Lives of Women in Northern New England, 1650-1750Good 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. |
Contents
Part One BATHSHEBA II | 11 |
Part Two EVE | 87 |
Part Three JAEL | 165 |
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