Good WivesBy: Laurel Thatcher Ulrich This enthralling work of scholarship strips away abstractions to reveal the hidden and not always stoic face of the "goodwives" of colonial America. In these pages we encounter the awesome burdens and the considerable power of a New England housewife's domestic life and witness her occasional forays into the world of men. We see her borrowing from her neighbors, loving her husband, raising and, all too often, mourning her