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Alice Morse Earle was a late 19th century American historian and author. Her stories focused on colonial life in New England. She is known for her sociological detail, which makes her work invaluable to modern sociologists. In this 1894 volume she covers such diverse topics as child life, courtship and marriage customs, domestic service, home interiors, supplies of the larder, old colonial drinks and drinkers, travel, tavern, and turnpike, holidays and festivals, sports and diversions, books and book-makers, artifices of handsomeness, raiment and vesture, doctors and patients, and funeral and burial customs…mehr

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Alice Morse Earle was a late 19th century American historian and author. Her stories focused on colonial life in New England. She is known for her sociological detail, which makes her work invaluable to modern sociologists. In this 1894 volume she covers such diverse topics as child life, courtship and marriage customs, domestic service, home interiors, supplies of the larder, old colonial drinks and drinkers, travel, tavern, and turnpike, holidays and festivals, sports and diversions, books and book-makers, artifices of handsomeness, raiment and vesture, doctors and patients, and funeral and burial customs
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Alice Morse Earle parents, Edwin Morse and Abby Mason Clary, named her Mary Alice. She married Henry Earle of New York City on April 15, 1874, and they had four children, including the botanical illustrator Alice Clary Earle Hyde. Beginning in 1890, her publications focused on little sociological aspects rather than large issues, making them essential to current social historians. She published several novels about colonial America (particularly the New England region), including Curious Punishments of Bygone Days.