Good Wives
Registered by GoryDetails of Nashua, New Hampshire USA on 12/9/2022
This Book is Currently in the Wild!
1 journaler for this copy...
I got this book at a local thrift shop, for another release copy. It's subtitled "Image and Reality in the Lives of Women in Northern New England, 1650-1750".
Very interesting history/biography about daily life and societal issues in colonial New England. There are a LOT of quotes from old letters, journals, and other papers, many of them surprisingly detailed and personal, and revealing things that never got into the textbooks {wry grin}. Overall the book's a bit dry, but there are so many delightful [and, sometimes, appalling] peeks into the goings-on of three hundred years ago that it's worth coping with the sometimes-repetitive framework. [Among the little gems: a letter from a son to his mother, complaining about the state of his clothes and asking her to wash the socks he's sending home; sounds just like a modern-day college student, except that nowadays it'd probably be email instead of quill and paper!]
Very interesting history/biography about daily life and societal issues in colonial New England. There are a LOT of quotes from old letters, journals, and other papers, many of them surprisingly detailed and personal, and revealing things that never got into the textbooks {wry grin}. Overall the book's a bit dry, but there are so many delightful [and, sometimes, appalling] peeks into the goings-on of three hundred years ago that it's worth coping with the sometimes-repetitive framework. [Among the little gems: a letter from a son to his mother, complaining about the state of his clothes and asking her to wash the socks he's sending home; sounds just like a modern-day college student, except that nowadays it'd probably be email instead of quill and paper!]
Journal Entry 2 by GoryDetails at -- Somewhere In Boston <3 in Boston, Massachusetts USA on Wednesday, May 31, 2023
Released 10 mos ago (6/1/2023 UTC) at -- Somewhere In Boston <3 in Boston, Massachusetts USA
WILD RELEASE NOTES:
I plan to leave this book on a bench somewhere near the Commonwealth Museum on Morrissey Blvd, while on my way to a tour of the documents there. Hope someone enjoys the book!
[See other recent releases in MA here.]
** Released for the 2023 June Brides challenge. **
** Released for the 2023 Allergic to A challenge. **
[See other recent releases in MA here.]
** Released for the 2023 June Brides challenge. **
** Released for the 2023 Allergic to A challenge. **