Good Wives has a sense of humor, and has guts. For starters, despite its title, it’s a social history of women in the pre-revolutionary American colonies, not a how-to book for conservative evangelical home-makers.
Social histories are a mixed lot. With military or economic histories, you tend to know what you’re getting. Social histories, though, run from pretentious propagandists seeking for precedents to old-fashioned storytellers who managed to get their theses done.
Ulrich hits it just right.
