Woman's Life in Colonial Days

xvi+319 pages with bibliography and index. Octavo (8 1/4" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's dark green with gilt lettering to spine in original jacket. Reprint of the 1922 edition. This book is an attempt to portray by means of the writings of colonial days the life of the women of that period, -how they lived, what their work and their play, what and how they thought and felt, their strength and their weakness, the joys and the sorrows of their everyday existence. Through such an attempt perhaps we can more nearly understand how and why the American woman is what she is to-day. Condition: Tape stain on back pastedown. Jacket spine head creased and rubbed, corners rubbed, spine sunned else a very good copy in like jacket.