Puritan Family Life: The Diary of Samuel Sewall

By Judith S. Graham

Book Overview

Historians have commonly characterized Puritan family life as joyless, repressive, even brutal. By such accounts, Puritan parents disciplined their children mercilessly, crushed their wills, responded... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1555534457
• ISBN13: 9781555534455
• Release Date: January 2000
• Publisher: Northeastern Univ Pr
• Length: 283 Pages
• Weight: 1.48 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.8" x 1.0" x 6.5"

Customer Reviews

A warm and engaging portrait of a Puritan family

Graham has crafted a warm and engaging portrait of family life among 18c. New England merchants and ministers. She reviews and challenges much past scholarship on childhood in early modern Europe and America. Popular readers may find the historiographical discussion tedious, but professional historians, local historians, and genealogists will appreciate Graham's painstaking research and common-sense assessment of Puritan parents' attitudes towards their children.