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Home Life in Colonial Days

Alice Morse Earle

  • History
  • Book language: English
  • 275 pages

Home Life in Colonial Days is a work of social and domestic history by Alice Morse Earle. It explores everyday life in colonial American households—homes, furnishings, food, clothing, chores, and customs—using surviving objects and documents. Listeners can enjoy a vivid, carefully researched portrait of ordinary people and the rhythms of daily life.

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Transcriber's Note:
This e-text was prepared from the
reprint edition published in 1974 by
Berkshire
Traveller
Press.
Copyrighted
materials
from
that
edition,
including
the
modern
preface and illustrations, are not
included.
Home Life in COLONIAL DAYS
Written by
ALICE MORSE EARLE
in the year 1898
THE BERKSHIRE TRAVELLER PRESS
Stockbridge, Massachusetts
THIS BOOK IS BEGUN
AS IT IS ENDED
IN MEMORY OF MY MOTHER

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  1. Home Life in COLONIAL DAYS
  2. Home Life in Colonial Days

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