1796 ANONYMOUS. A Good Wife, God's Gift. The Chaste Virgin & Pious Widow. Very Scarce. ZZTheologyandReligion It went through many editions

It went through many editions quite early on

Under these circumstances

the popularity of individual traveling preachers like George Whitefield

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1796 ANONYMOUS. A Good Wife, God's Gift. The Chaste Virgin & Pious Widow. Very Scarce. ZZTheologyandReligion It went through many editionsExcessively scarce piece of devotion for women, published in Boston, 1796. It's last appearance at auction was 1927, even then described as "an extremely rare piece of early American poetry with no record of any sale of a copy of the work." The prose section of the work is apparently that of the English puritan, Thomas Gataker [1574 1624], and the various poems on the various forms of female godliness, i. e. virginity, marriage, and widowhood, appear