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Alice Morse Earle
1851–1911
Best known for bringing colonial America vividly to life, this American historian and antiquarian wrote warmly detailed books about everyday customs, home crafts, and domestic life. Her work helped generations of readers imagine the texture of early American life beyond famous battles and political events.
12 Audiobooks
Sabbath in Puritan New England
by Alice Morse Earle
Home Life in Colonial Days
by Alice Morse Earle
Curious Punishments of Bygone Days
by Alice Morse Earle
Colonial days in old New York
by Alice Morse Earle
Customs and Fashions in Old New England
by Alice Morse Earle
Stage-coach and Tavern Days
by Alice Morse Earle
In old Narragansett; romances and realities
by Alice Morse Earle
Child Life in Colonial Days
by Alice Morse Earle
Two Centuries of Costume in America, Volume 1 (1620-1820)
by Alice Morse Earle
Old-Time Gardens, Newly Set Forth
by Alice Morse Earle
Colonial dames and good wives
by Alice Morse Earle
China collecting in America
by Alice Morse Earle
About the author
Born in Worcester, Massachusetts, in 1851, Alice Morse Earle was an American writer and antiquarian whose work centered on the manners, customs, and handicrafts of earlier periods of American history. She was born Mary Alice Morse and later married Henry Earle in 1874.
Her writing career took off in the 1890s, when she began publishing lively, research-based books about colonial and early American daily life. Rather than focusing only on major political events, she explored the details of how people lived: their kitchens, gardens, needlework, taverns, Sabbath customs, and household routines. That practical, human-scale approach made her especially memorable.
Earle died in 1911, but her books have remained useful and appealing to readers interested in social history, early American culture, and the small everyday details that more formal histories often leave out.