Woman's Life in Colonial Days So many myths and stories

So many myths and stories have arisen from history's most famous maritime disaster that it can be difficult to tell fact from fiction

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first published by Oxford University Press in 1976 and reprinted by Dover in 1996

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Woman's Life in Colonial Days So many myths and storiesWhat was life like for women in the American colonies? Did colonial women lead the sober, cheerless lives of hardship often portrayed by later generations? Professor Holliday's classic study, drawn from a wide range of sources, suggests otherwise. Dispelling images of the lives of colonial woman as endless gloom and suffering, accompanied by fear of pleasure, and repression of normal emotions, Holliday shows that colonial women knew love and passion,