Colonial Dames and Good Wives (Classic Reprint)

Download or read book Colonial Dames and Good Wives (Classic Reprint) written by Alice Morse Earle and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-08 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Colonial Dames and Good Wives No coquetry was allowed in this mating. A girl could not promise to marry two men, under pain of fine or punishment; and at least one presumptuous and grasping man was whipped for promising marriage to two girls at the same time - as he deserved to be when wives were so scarce. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.