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Title: Good Wives : Image and Reality in the Lives of Women in Northern New England, 1650-1750 by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich ISBN: 0-679-73257-8 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 04 June, 1991 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.88 (8 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Good book about colonial women
Comment: I am very interested in finding out about colonial American women. This book didn't disappoint as far as facts. The author takes great pains to mention as much as she can about the women she's writing about. My only quibble with the book would be sometimes when the author introduces some facts, she would just leave the facts hanging there. There would be interesting tibits mentioned about a particular woman, then that tibit would be left and the author would go one to discuss something else.
Still, overall this book is very enlightening about how women lived back in colonial times.
Rating: 5
Summary: Fantastic!
Comment: This was fabulous! The author clearly does NOT hate Puritans. She is objective, insightful. It's a treasure!
Rating: 5
Summary: Dated but a great place to start.
Comment: Ulrich succeeds in bringing to life the obscure and the mundane in a manner that intrigues and entertains. This is not a small feat given a subject that I thought would be somewhat dry. Rather than reading like a textbook, Ulrich targets the divisions of women's lives that Nancy Cott used, religion, sisterhood, domesticity, and marriage relations with a wit and wealth of facinating vingettes.
The only real issue I have with the book (aside from becoming a little dated twenty years on) is the title. People seem to assume that a book entitled 'Good Wives' is a type of antiquated self help manual, rather than a record of the Good wives of 17th and 18th Century America.
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Title: A Midwife's Tale : The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812 by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich ISBN: 0679733760 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 04 June, 1991 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: The Age of Homespun : Objects and Stories in the Creation of an American Myth by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich ISBN: 0679445943 Publisher: Knopf Pub. Date: 30 October, 2001 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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Title: Everyday Life in Early America by David F. Hawke ISBN: 0060912510 Publisher: Harpercollins Juvenile Books Pub. Date: 25 January, 1989 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: First Generations : Women in Colonial America by Carol Berkin ISBN: 0809016060 Publisher: Hill & Wang Pub Pub. Date: 01 July, 1997 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Changes in the Land : Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England by William Cronon ISBN: 0809016346 Publisher: Hill & Wang Pub Pub. Date: 01 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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