Narratives that focus on
women's lives:
• "A Good Poor Man's Wife": Being a Chronicle of Harriet Hanson Robinson and Her Family in 19th-Century
New England by Claudia L.
Bushman (University Press of
New England, $19.95)
• The Way of Duty: A Woman and Her Family in Revolutionary America by Joy Day Buel and Richard Buel Jr. (W.W. Norton & Co., $13.95)
• Growing Up in the 1850s: The Journal of Agnes Lee edited by Mary Custis Lee deButts (University of
North Carolina Press,$10.95)
• Rachel Calof's Story: Jewish Homesteader on the Northern Plains edited by J. Sanford Rikoon
(Indiana University Press, $11.58)
• The Murder of Helen Jewett: The Life and Death of a Prostitute in 19th-Century New York by Patricia Cline Cohen (Vintage Books, $14)
• Good Wives: Image and Reality in the Lives of Women in Northern New England, 1650-1750
by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich (Vintage Books, $14)
• Separate Lives: The Story of Mary Rippon
by Silvia Pettem (The Book Lode, $19.95)
General guides for discovering female ancestors:
• A Genealogist's Guide to Discovering Your Female Ancestors by Sharon DeBartolo Carmack (Betterway Books, $17.99)
• The Hidden Half of the Family: A Sourcebook for Women's Genealogy by Christina K. Schaefer
(Genealogical Publishing Co., $35)