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Colonial dames and good wives

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A study of women in early colonial society that examines their domestic duties, marriage customs, and household economies alongside their social manners and pastimes. The author draws on anecdote and records to portray widows, industrious housewives, outspoken or unconventional female figures, and women who engaged in business or political causes. Chapters survey fashions, accomplishments, fireside industries, and neighborhood life, and they consider how family formation, public service, and informal power shaped daily experience and community identity in the colonial era.

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Title: Colonial dames and good wives

Author: Alice Morse Earle

Release date: August 31, 2023 [eBook #71532]

Language: English

Original publication: Boston & New York: Houghton, Mifflin & Company, 1895

Credits: The Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

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COLONIAL DAMES
AND
GOOD WIVES

WRITTEN BY
ALICE MORSE EARLE



BOSTON AND NEW YORK
HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN & COMPANY
THE RIVERSIDE PRESS CAMBRIDGE