Customs and Fashions of Old New Engla..., Alice Morse Earle
Customs and Fashions of Old New Engla..., Alice Morse Earle
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Customs and Fashions of Old New England

Author: Alice Morse Earle

Narrator: Joseph Tabler

Unabridged: 11 hr 46 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Spoken Realms

Published: 08/29/2023


Synopsis

A Dusty Tomes Audio BookIn Cooperation with Spoken RealmsA Major US Historian SeriesCustoms and Fashions of Old New England by Alice Morse Earle first published by Charles Scribner’s Sons 1893.Note: This book is ‘read as written'. It was published in 1893. It is in the public domain.Narrator’s comment: This book is quite wonderful, a slice of life from another time, at once fun, interesting, and real history. Alice Morse Earle is great! (And not easy to read at times, due to the spelling of the quoted diaries, letters, and so forth.)ContentsI. Child LifeII. Courtship and Marriage CustomsIII. Domestic ServiceIV. Home InteriorsV. Table PlenishingsVI. Supplies of the LarderVII. Old Colonial Drinks and DrinkersVIII. Travel, Tavern, and TurnpikeIX. Holidays and FestivalsX. Sports and DiversionsXI. Books and Book-MakersXII. Artifices of HandsomenessXIIL Raiment and VestureXIV. Doctors and PatientsXV. Funeral and Burial CustomsDusty Tomes Audio Books are public domain books retrieved from the ravages of time. Available as never before, as audio books, for your edification, pleasure, and consideration.

About Alice Morse Earle

Alice Morse Earle (1851–1911). Her writings, beginning in 1890, focused on small sociological details rather than grand details, and thus are invaluable for modern social historians. Other works include Home Life in Colonial Days, Costume of Colonial Times, Colonial Dames and Good Wives, Curious Punishments of Bygone Days, and Child Life in Colonial Days.

About Joseph Tabler

Joseph Tabler is an American author, publisher, used book dealer, lifeguard, expert bodysurfer, pianist, and composer. Presently he narrates “old books that probably would never get turned into audio books.” Dusty Tomes Audio Books are public domain books retrieved from the ravages of time.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Spencer on May 26, 2025

A fantastic and intriguing social history or people’s history written in the late 19th century about daily life in early colonial New England. I was drawn to this book for several reasons, partly because it personifies the strange and mysterious puritanical colonist that is so pervasive yet implicit......more