Author : Susan Williams
Publisher : Public History in Historical P
ISBN 13 : 9781558499881
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (998 download)
Book Synopsis Alice Morse Earle and the Domestic History of Early America by : Susan Williams
Download or read book Alice Morse Earle and the Domestic History of Early America written by Susan Williams and published by Public History in Historical P. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Author, collector, and historian Alice Morse Earle (1851-1911) was among the most important and prolific writers of her day. Between 1890 and 1904, she produced seventeen books as well as numerous articles, pamphlets, and speeches about the life, manners, customs, and material culture of colonial New England. Earle's work coincided with a surge of interest in early American history, genealogy, and antique collecting, and more than a century after the publication of her first book, her contributions still resonate with readers interested in the nation's colonial past. An intensely private woman, Earle lived in Brooklyn, New York, with her husband and four children and conducted much of her research either by mail or at the newly established Long Island Historical Society. She began writing on the eve of her fortieth birthday, and the impressive body of scholarship she generated over the next fifteen years stimulated new interest in early American social customs, domestic routines, foodways, clothing, and childrearing patterns. Written in a style calculated to appeal to a wide readership, Earle's richly illustrated books recorded the intimated details of what she described as colonial "home life." These works reflected her belief that women had played a key historical role, helping to nurture communities by constructing households that both served and shaped their families. It was a vision that spoke eloquently to her contemporaries, who were busily creating exhibitions of early American life in museums, staging historical pageants and other forms of patriotic celebration, and furnishing their own domestic interiors. Book jacket.
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