Home Life in Colonial Days
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- First published
- 1898
- Pages
- 275
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Dedication and Forword
5:06 -
Homes of the Colonists
46:45 -
The Light of Other Days
29:27 -
The Kitchen Fireside
36:59 -
The Serving of Meals
47:35 -
Food from Forest and Sea
39:25 -
Indian Corn
32:39 -
Meat and Drink
41:04 -
Flax Culture and Spinning
40:13 -
Wool Culture and Spinning, with a Postscript on Cotton
45:07 -
Hand-Weaving
64:44 -
Girls' Occupations
51:24 -
Dress of the Colonists
36:04 -
Jack-knife Industries
45:55 -
Travel, Transportation, and Taverns
65:28 -
Sunday in the Colonies
38:18 -
Colonial Neighborliness
63:22 -
Old-time Flower Gardens
53:14
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About this book
Alice Morse Earle wanted to know how the American colonists actually lived, so she wrote about the lean-tos and log houses they threw together on arrival, the open hearths they cooked at, the flax they broke and spun, the candles they dipped, the pewter and china on the shelf, the schoolrooms, the meals and the games children invented. She worked from diaries, letters, probate inventories and the objects themselves, at a time when most historians thought domestic life beneath notice. The result, first published in 1898, is still handed to museum staff and reenactors because Earle bothered to record the small practical facts everyone else assumed would keep.
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Book facts
- Author
- Alice Morse Earle
- First published
- 1898
- Reading time
- About 6 hours
- Pages
- 275
- Language
- English
- Genre
- American History
- Formats
- PDF, EPUB, Read online, Audiobook
- Audio read by
- Susan Morin