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To Comfort the Heart: Women in Seventeenth-Century America

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Paula Treckel's "To Comfort the Heart" is a fabulous read! Treckel weaves the many pieces of history together to give the reader a vivid understanding of life for women in the early US. Her writing style will hold you in fascination, as Treckel doesn't just relay the facts but tells a story. "Comfort" relays the intimate details of life for women of vastly different walks of colonial life, giving the reader a flavor of the many interactions instead of simply outlining women of one lifestyle. The stories of women of many different walks of life are told. Strikingly, while the genteel Lady, the "huswife", and the female slave encountered many of the same problems, there was little sisterhood to be found outside of one's class. Read this book - it will make you appreciate how far we have come, and give you a greater understanding of what our fore-mothers lived through; and it's simply a well-written collection of the history of America's often historically "silent" half.