" Well behaved women rarely make history." This is a famous quote said by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich. Ms. Ulrich is a professor of history at Harvard University and she is well known for many of her publications, one of them being "Good Wives" a book written about women in Northern New England 1650-1750. Her writings offer an individualized picture of an important part of colonial society in all aspects, a society in which the boundaries of men and women sometimes were blurred within the individual household. I believe we can find a true correlation between these theories and in the story written by Mary Freeman, "The Revolt of "Mother."" Boundaries are broken within the traditional thinking of the oppressed wife and with a husband who strongly believes in dominance over women.

In "The Revolt of"Mother"", Sarah Penn is the main character portrayed as the loyal...