Alice Morse Earle (April 27, 1851 – February 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.[1] 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.
^the hathi trust page cited says 1898...was probably missread or written, so previously misplaced in the bibliography list.
^Buckingham, James Silk; Sterling, John; Maurice, Frederick Denison; Stebbing, Henry; Dilke, Charles Wentworth; Hervey, Thomas Kibble; Dixon, William Hepworth; MacColl, Norman; Rendall, Vernon Horace; Murry, John Middleton (April 21, 1900). "Review of Child Life in Colonial Days by Alice Morse Earle". The Athenæum (3782): 488–489.
^Earle, Alice Morse (October 22, 1900). "Stage-coach and tavern days". New York, The Macmillan company; London, Macmillan & co., ltd. – via Internet Archive.
Colonial days in old New York by Alice Morse Earle. Cornell University Library New York State Historical Literature Collection, (reprinted by Cornell University Library Digital Collections)
