Woman's Life in Colonial Days Sure to delight amateur and

Sure to delight amateur and professional pianists alike

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

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This examination of the Christian life constitutes one of the most remarkable books of devotion ever written

Woman's Life in Colonial Days Sure to delight amateur andWhat 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,