Customs and Fashions in Old New England

By: Alice Morse Earle

Narrated by: Joseph Tabler

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A Major US Historian Series

Customs and Fashions of Old New England by Alice Morse Earle first published by Charles Scribner’s Sons 1893.

Note: This book is ‘read as written'. It was published in 1893. It is in the public domain.

Narrator’s comment: This book is quite wonderful, a slice of life from another time, at once fun, interesting, and real history. Alice Morse Earle is great! (And not easy to read at times, due to the spelling of the quoted diaries, letters, and so forth.)

Contents

I. Child Life

II. Courtship and Marriage Customs

III. Domestic Service

IV. Home Interiors

V. Table Plenishings

VI. Supplies of the Larder

VII. Old Colonial Drinks and Drinkers

VIII. Travel, Tavern, and Turnpike

IX. Holidays and Festivals

X. Sports and Diversions

XI. Books and Book-Makers

XII. Artifices of Handsomeness

XIIL Raiment and Vesture

XIV. Doctors and Patients

XV. Funeral and Burial Customs

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Originally published in 1893.

Public Domain (P)2023 Spoken Realms