Life After Death: Widows in Pennsylvania, 1750-1850

by Emily Wilson and Lisa Wilson

In early nineteenth-century Pennsylvania widows comprised 10% of the female population. Most never remarried. Lisa Wilson traces the experiences of widows in a society that imposed an ideology of... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0877228833
• ISBN13: 9780877228837
• Release Date: January 1992
• Publisher: Temple University Press
• Length: 215 Pages