Customs and Fashions in Old New England: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Customs and Fashions in Old New England, credited to Alice Morse Earle, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of Customs and Fashions in Old New England by Alice Morse Earle. Read in English by Ted Lienhart. Alice Morse Earle was an antiquarian historian of the New England region where she was raised. But rather than focusing as most historians did on political and military events or the lives of society elites, Earle investigated the homely details of the everyday lives of ordinary people. Her works would later often be cited within the emerging field of Social History. - Summary by Ted Lienhart

Recording facts

• Recording title: Customs and Fashions in Old New England
• Author credits: Alice Morse Earle
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 26
• Listed recording duration: 11:09:42

Catalogue topics

• united states - social life and customs to 1775
• u.s. local history - new england
• american social history

Opening tracks: first 24 of 26

1. 01 - 1. Child Life, Part 1 — 30:16
2. 02 - 1. Child Life, Part 2 — 28:56
3. 03 - 2. Courtship and Marriage Customs, Part 1 — 25:44
4. 04 - 2. Courtship and Marriage Customs, Part 2 — 25:26
5. 05 - 2. Courtship and Marriage Customs, Part 3 — 27:39
6. 06 - 3. Domestic Service, Part 1 — 21:00
7. 07 - 3. Domestic Service, Part 2 — 21:59
8. 08 - 4. Home Interiors, Part 1 — 24:10
9. 09 - 4. Home Interiors, Part 2 — 21:35
10. 10 - 5. Table Plenishings — 24:10
11. 11 - 6. Supplies of the Larder — 30:10
12. 12 - 7. Old Colonial Drinks and Drinkers — 36:38
13. 13 - 8. Travel, Tavern, and Turnpike, Part 1 — 25:38
14. 14 - 8. Travel, Tavern, and Turnpike, Part 2 — 25:02
15. 15 - 9. Holidays and Festivals — 32:23
16. 16 - 10. Sports and Diversions, Part 1 — 21:00
17. 17 - 10. Sports and Diversions, Part 2 — 20:21
18. 18 - 11. Books and Book-Makers, Part 1 — 27:01
19. 19 - 11. Books and Book-Makers, Part 2 — 27:37
20. 20 - 12. Artifices of Handsomeness, Part 1 — 21:26
21. 21 - 12. Artifices of Handsomeness, Part 2 — 23:19
22. 22 - 13. Raiment and Vesture — 29:41
23. 23 - 14. Doctors and Patients, Part 1 — 28:18
24. 24 - 14. Doctors and Patients, Part 2 — 30:24

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