![]() Although the ability to at least temporarily perform male work was a key responsibility of wives, economic power was always contingent upon personal relationships. "Bathsheba" explores the distinct and often competing roles of housewife and deputy husband, suggesting that it was not the work which wives performed which mattered so much as the social context of that work. The discussion is organized around three Biblical archetypes frequently employed in early New England. ![]() Because there are no female diaries for the period and few letters, the study depends upon an accumulation of evidence from court records, account books, probate inventories, church records, paintings, embroideries, gravestones, genealogical records, captivity narratives, sermons, and the letters and diaries of husbands and sons. This dissertation describes the productive, sexual, and public roles of married women living in the province of New Hampshire and the two Massachusetts counties which bordered it, Essex County to the south and York County (now Maine) to the north and east. ![]()
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