Synopsis
Home Life in Colonial Days (English Edition) by Alice Morse Earle invites you into the intimate, often surprising realities of everyday living in early America. With vivid detail and a storyteller’s eye for the practical and the personal, Earle recreates the textures of domestic life—how people cooked, cleaned, dressed, worked, worshiped, celebrated, and endured—revealing a world shaped by necessity, community, and tradition.
Drawing on period sources and keen historical observation, this classic work illuminates the rhythms of households where comfort was hard-won and ingenuity was a daily requirement. From the hearth and kitchen to the sickroom and the parlor, from seasonal labor to family customs, Earle portrays the routines that formed the foundation of colonial society and the values that held it together.
More than a survey of objects and chores, Home Life in Colonial Days captures the human side of history: the resilience behind modest homes, the social ties woven through neighborhood life, and the small ceremonies that brought meaning to ordinary days. Readers of social history, early American studies, and traditional domestic culture will find a rich, immersive portrait of the past that remains compelling and deeply readable today.
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Biographie de l'auteur
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.
Présentation de l'éditeur
"Home Life in Colonial Days" from Alice Morse Earle. American historian and author (1851-1911).
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