Alice Morse Earle
Alice Morse Earle (April 27, 1851February 16, 1911) was an American historian and writer from Worcester, Massachusetts. She was christened Mary Alice by her parents Edwin Morse and Abby Mason Clary. On April 15, 1874, she married Henry Earle of New York City with whom she had four children, including the botanical illustrator Alice Clary Earle Hyde.
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Alice Morse Earle
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- Name
- Alice Morse Earle
- Birth Name
- Mary Alice Morse
- Born
- 27 April 1851
- Birthplace
- Worcester, Massachusetts
- Died
- 16 February 1911
- Place of death
- Hempstead, Long Island
- Occupation
- Historian and author
- Nationality
- United States
- Known for
- Home Life In Colonial Days
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She changed her name from Mary Alice Morse to Alice Morse Earle. Her writings, beginning in 1890, focused on daily colonial life rather than grand events, and thus are invaluable for modern US social historians. She wrote a number of books on colonial America (and especially the New England region) such as Home Life in Colonial Days, Old Time Gardens, Costume of Colonial Times, and Curious Punishments of Bygone Days. She was a passenger aboard the RMS Republic when, while in a dense fog, that ship collided with the SS Florida. During the transfer of passengers, Alice fell into the water. Her near drowning in 1909 off the coast of Nantucket during this abortive trip to Egypt weakened her health sufficiently that she died two years later, in Hempstead, Long Island.
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• Name — Alice Morse Earle • Birth Name — Mary Alice Morse • Born — 27 April 1851 • Birthplace — Worcester, Massachusetts • Died — 16 February 1911 • Place of death — Hempstead, Long Island • Occupation — Historian and author
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1851
Alice Morse Earle born at Worcester.
1911
Alice Morse Earle died at Hempstead.
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• The Sabbath in Puritan New England (1891) • China Collecting in America (1892) • Customs and Fashions in Old New England (1893) • Diary of Anna Green Winslow, A Boston School Girl of 1771 (1894) • Costume of Colonial Times (1894) • Colonial Dames and Goodwives (1895) • Margaret Winthrop (1895) • Colonial Days in Old New York (1896) • Curious Punishments of Bygone Days (1896) • In Old Narragansett: Romances and Realities (1898) • Home Life in Colonial Days (1898) • Child Life in Colonial Days (1899) • Stagecoach and Tavern Days at www.quinnipiac.edu Stagecoach and Tavern Days (1900) or at Internet Archive • Old Time Gardens (1901) • Sun Dials and Roses of Yesterday (1902) • Two Centuries of Costume in America, 1620–1820 (2 vols., 1903)
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- 1.American Antiquarian Society. Earle, Alice Morse, Collection, 1890–1951.
- 2.Review of Colonial Dames and Good Wives by Alice Morse Earle and Margaret Winthrop by Alice Morse Earle. The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science and Art. 81. 2110. 357. 4 April 1896.
- 3.the HathiTrust page cited says 1898...was probably missread or written, so previously misplaced in the bibliography list.
- 4.Buckingham, James Silk. Review of Child Life in Colonial Days by Alice Morse Earle. The Athenæum. 3782. 488–489. 21 April 1900.
- 5.Earle, Alice Morse. Stage-coach and tavern days. New York, The Macmillan company; London, Macmillan & co., ltd. October 22, 1900.
- 6.Review of Sun Dials and Roses of Yesterday by Alice Morse Earle. The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science and Art. 95. 2980. 591–592. 9 May 1903.
Bibliography printed in the source article · 2
- "Alice Morse Earle," in Notable American Women: Volume 1 4th ed., Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1975.
- Susan Reynolds Williams, Alice Morse Earle and the Domestic History of Early America. Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press, 2013.
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The authorities additionally record the heading Mary Alice Morse. One child is recorded: Alice Clary Earle Hyde.
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