Good Wives wool One ornament features the likeness

One ornament features the likeness and signature of Alexander Hamilton

Each evening

In 1774 she petitioned the House of Burgesses to renew a contract that had been granted under her husband William

Length is 5" includes the handle

Good Wives wool One ornament features the likenessPaperback 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 children, and even