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Wenches, Wives and Widows

Wenches, Wives and Widows

Joann Riley McKey

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Heritage Books Inc.
Año de edición:
2009
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Biografía: general
ISBN:
9780788442759
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Some women who lived on the Eastern Shore of Virginia were prone to bad behavior; others had bad things happen to them, but all of their stories are too good to leave buried in the old record books. During the 1600s and early 1700s, a wide range of circum

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