Hoping for an eternal crown, they never asked to be remembered on earth. They prayed secretly, read the Bible through at least once a year, and went to hear the minister preach even when it snowed. Neither, because they were virtuous women, did they question God or the magistrates. Emphasis added to excerpts by QI:Ĭotton Mather called them “The Hidden Ones.” They never preached or sat in a deacon’s bench. The introductory sentences to Ulrich’s 1976 paper provide further context for her quotation. The book illuminated the medical practices and sexual attitudes of the era and was awarded a Pulitzer-Prize and Bancroft Prize. The 1990 book “A Midwife’s Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812” by Ulrich reprinted and extensively commented on the diary entries of an ordinary midwife in Maine who also acted as a healer. She was interested in limning the lives of ordinary women who were considered “well-behaved” or “vertuous” (an alternate spelling of virtuous).
The goal of the paper and much of Ulrich’s work was the recovery of the history of women who were not featured in history books of the past. The article containing the phrase was titled “Vertuous Women Found: New England Ministerial Literature, 1668-1735”. She is now an eminent Pulitzer-Prize-winning Professor of early American history at Harvard University. In 1976 Ulrich was a student at the University of New Hampshire, and she earned her Ph.D. The statement used the word “seldom” instead of “rarely” or “never”: 1976 Spring, American Quarterly, Volume 28, Number 1, “Vertuous Women Found: New England Ministerial Literature, 1668-1735” by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, Start, Quote, The … Continue reading Quote Investigator: The earliest evidence of a version of this phrase known to QI appeared in an academic paper in the journal “American Quarterly” in 1976 by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich. Would you please explore the provenance of this saying? Anne Boleyn was beheaded, and I doubt she wanted to enter the history books via an execution. Some of these quotes use the word “rarely” and others use the word “never”.
Well-behaved women never make history – My senior Quote Well behaved women never make history – Marilyn Monroe Well behaved women rarely make history – Unknown Well behaved women rarely make history – Anne Boleyn Well-behaved women rarely make history – Eleanor Roosevelt Well behaved women rarely make history – Marilyn Monroe Marilyn Monroe? Eleanor Roosevelt? Anne Boleyn? Laurel Thatcher Ulrich? Anonymous?ĭear Quote Investigator: Observing a stream of tweets is a confusing way to learn about a quotation:
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