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Alice Morse Earle (b. April 27, 1851, d. February 16, 1911) was an American historian and author from Worcester, Massachusetts, who wrote a number of books on Colonial America (and especially the New England region) such as Curious Punishments of Bygone Days. In 1874, she married Henry Earle of New York, changing her name from Mary Alice Morse to Alice Morse Earle. Her writings, beginning in 1890, focussed on small sociological details rather than grand details, and thus are invaluable for modern sociologists. A near drowing in 1909 off the coast of Nantucket during an abortive trip to Egypt weakened her health sufficiently that she died two years later, in Hempstead, Long Island.
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- China Collecting in America (1892)
- Customs and Fashions in Old New England (1893)
- Colonial Dames and Goodwives (1895)
- Colonial Days in Old New York (1896)
- In Old Narragansett: Romances and Realities (1898)
- Child Life in Colonial Days (1899)
- Old Time Gardens (1901)
- Two Centuries of Costume in America, 1620–1820 (1903)
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