Home Life in Colonial Days

by Alice Morse Earle

Overview

Written in 1898, Home Life is a comprehensive account of the daily life and customs of the people of pre-Revolutionary America. Travel, meals, modes of dress, flower gardening, industry, social customs, and much more are described.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781495447235
Publisher:	CreateSpace Publishing
Publication date:	02/06/2014
Pages:	182
Product dimensions:	5.98(w) x 9.02(h) x 0.39(d)

About the Author

Alice Morse Earle (1851-1911) was an American historian and author from Worcester, Massachusetts. She was christened Mary Alice by her parents Edwin Morse and Abby Mason Clary. On 15 April 1874, she married Henry Earle of New York, changing her name from Mary Alice Morse to Alice Morse Earle. Her writings, beginning in 1890, focussed on small sociological details rather than grand details, and thus are invaluable for modern sociologists. She wrote a number of books on Colonial America (and especially the New England region) such as Curious Punishments of Bygone Days. She was a passenger aboard the RMS Republic when, while in a dense fog, that ship collided with the SS Florida. During the transfer of passengers, Alice fell into the water. Her near drowning in 1909 off the coast of Nantucket during this abortive trip to Egypt weakened her health sufficiently that she died two years later, in Hempstead, Long Island.

Table of Contents

I.	Homes of the Colonists	1
II.	The Light of Other Days	32
III.	The Kitchen Fireside	52
IV.	The Serving of Meals	76
V.	Food from Forest and Sea	108
VI.	Indian Corn	126
VII.	Meat and Drink	142
VIII.	Flax Culture and Spinning	166
IX.	Wool Culture and Spinning, with a Postscript on Cotton	187
X.	Hand-Weaving	212
XI.	Girls' Occupations	252
XII.	Dress of the Colonists	281
XIII.	Jack-knife Industries	300
XIV.	Travel, Transportation, and Taverns	325
XV.	Sunday in the Colonies	364
XVI.	Colonial Neighborliness	388
XVII.	Old-time Flower Gardens	421