Colonial Dames and Goodwives
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This work deals with the role of women in colonial America. The book begins with a discussion of the (sometimes involuntary) importation of women and girls into the young colonies and ends with a chapter on their domestic industries. Chapters include: Consorts and Relicts; Women of Affairs; “Double-Tongued and Naughty Women;” Boston Neighbors; A Fearfull Female Travailler; Two Colonial Adventuresses; The Universal Friend; Eighteenth Century Manners; Their Amusements and Accomplishments; Daughters of Liberty; A Revolutionary Housewife; and Fireside Industries. The geographic coverage extends from Louisiana to Massachusetts.
Alice Morse Earle
(1895, 1988), 2024, 5.5" x 8.5", paper, 324 pp.
ISBN: 9781556131509
101-E3150