Dr. Hansen ties everything up quite neatly for us. One thing we've neglected just a bit, is the relationship of New England to an emerging feminism, and in some cases, a redefining of gender roles in which women participated in the social sphere and men were willing to assist with housework, tending, the sick, and child minding without feeling their masculinity threatened. It is no coincidence that New England women played such a prominent role in the Women's Suffrage Movement, nor is it coincidental that many of the male supporters of this expanded role for women were new Englanders.
New Englanders were quick to rise to the defense of village life, as this letter of Julia C. R. Dorr, appearing in the May, 1883 issue of The Century indicates.
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Left: 1684 House sometime called the Witch House. Below, a reconstruction of the First Church
