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“Frey and Morton use cogent, lucid introductions and annotations as a setting for a collection of documents that speak with insistent voices about women's activities and social positions in America from the Colonial period to 1815. Pointing out that `nobody came to the New World to get poor' or to become unhappy, the authors discuss women's roles in the relationships circumscribed by family, work, religion, and law. The introductions to the documents are excellent; the documents themselves are in turn poignant, witty, revealing, and subtle, but always compelling. The text preceding each document provides a setting, raises a question, or introduces an issue.... The tone is reasoned and objective. A great deal of valuable bibliographic information is interspersed throughout the text....”– Choice