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Author Williams, Susan, 1948-

Title Alice Morse Earle and the domestic history of early America / Susan Reynolds Williams
Published Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2013]

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Description 1 online resource
Series Public history in historical perspective
Public history in historical perspective.
Contents Introduction : hunting for Alice Morse Earle -- Family matters -- Parlor culture, public culture -- New England kismet -- The China hunter -- Writing the past -- Home life and history -- Remembering the garden -- Genealogy and the quest for an inherited future -- Toward new public history -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chronological bibliography of Alice Morse Earle's works
Summary 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 intimate 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. -- Publisher's description
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Earle, Alice Morse, 1851-1911.
SUBJECT Earle, Alice Morse, 1851-1911
Earle, Alice Morse, 1851-1911 fast
Subject Home economics -- United States -- Historiography
Material culture -- United States -- Historiography
Women historians -- United States -- Biography
Historians -- United States -- Biography
HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General.
HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA)
HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- New England (CT, MA, ME, NH, RI, VT)
Historians
Manners and customs -- Historiography
Women historians
SUBJECT New England -- Social life and customs -- To 1775 -- Historiography
United States -- Social life and customs -- To 1775 -- Historiography
Subject New England
United States
Genre/Form Biographies
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781613762264
1613762267