The writings of Alice Morse Earle (1853-1911) on early American life are perennial favorites because of the skill with which she portrayed the olden times. This volume includes the following chapters: Child Life; Courtship and Marriage Customs; Domestic Service; Home Interiors; Supplies of the Larder; Old Colonial Drinks and Drinkers; Travel, Tavern, and Turnpike; Holidays and Festivals; Sports and Diversions; Books and Book-Makers; Artifices of Handsomeness; Raiment and Vesture; Doctors and Patients; Funeral and Burial Customs.
Alice Morse Earle
(1893, 1992), 2012, 5.5" x 8.5", paper, 394 pp.
ISBN: 9781556135798
101-E0579
