Home Life In Colonial Days
by Alice Morse Earle
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About this eBook
- Author
- Earle, Alice Morse, 1851-1911
- Title
- Home Life in Colonial Days
- Credits
- Produced by Mark C. Orton, Constanze Hofmann and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- E151: History: America: United States
- Subject
- United States -- Social life and customs -- To 1775
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 22675
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/22675
- Release Date
- September 19, 2007
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.Home Life in COLONIAL DAYS
- 2.Foreword
- 3.Contents — Home Life in Colonial Days
- 4.CHAPTER I HOMES OF THE COLONISTS
- 5.CHAPTER II THE LIGHT OF OTHER DAYS
- 6.CHAPTER III THE KITCHEN FIRESIDE
- 7.CHAPTER IV THE SERVING OF MEALS
- 8.CHAPTER V FOOD FROM FOREST AND SEA
- 9.CHAPTER VI INDIAN CORN
- 10.CHAPTER VII MEAT AND DRINK
- 11.CHAPTER VIII FLAX CULTURE AND SPINNING
- 12.CHAPTER IX WOOL CULTURE AND SPINNING With a Postscript on Cotton
- 13.CHAPTER X HAND-WEAVING
- 14.CHAPTER XI GIRLS' OCCUPATIONS
- 15.CHAPTER XII DRESS OF THE COLONISTS
- 16.CHAPTER XIII JACK-KNIFE INDUSTRIES
- 17.CHAPTER XIV TRAVEL, TRANSPORTATION, AND TAVERNS
- 18.CHAPTER XV SUNDAY IN THE COLONIES
- 19.CHAPTER XVI COLONIAL NEIGHBORLINESS
- 20.CHAPTER XVII OLD-TIME FLOWER GARDENS
- 21.Index
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