Customs and Fashions in Old New England eBook Alice Morse Earle
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Customs and Fashions in Old New England eBook Alice Morse Earle
This is a very interesting and informative read. Although I'll admit I made a mistake and bought it because I was writing a thesis on Jane Austen and didn't realize the title said "New England" (as in USA).Still, while there are obviously differences between what happened across the Atlantic Ocean, it is a good read to consider if you have to prepare a paper.
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Customs and Fashions in Old New England eBook Alice Morse Earle Reviews
Alice Morse Earle's work is a fascinating study of everyday life in 17th and 18th century New England and is recognized as one of the historical classics. She looks at child life, courtships, holidays, marriage, drinks, medicines, letters, sports and diversions. She makes use of diaries, letters, household inventories, and church records to write a history of this period. Earle's choice of topics combined with her melodic style of writing and pioneering use of first person accounts has resulted in a well documented, easily readable classic about our American past, well suited for the researcher and casual reader alike.
First published in both England and American in 1893, Alice Morse Earle's work met with very positive reviews. She pioneered the use of diaries, chruch records, newspaper accounts, letters and household inventories in the preparation of this work. Her engaging writing style made her works very popular. She presents fascinating, unvarnished views of child life, travel, taverns, table plenishments, home interiors, courtship, marriage, sports, diversions, medicine along with funeral and burial customs. The reader will find this work humorous, entertaining, thoughtful and her subjects picturesque, bizarre and curious. To this unabridged text has been added a new introduction along with biographical material on and photograph of the author. This is a widely referenced, widely consulted classic.
This is not a review of the contents of the book. Alice Morse Earle's work should be considered a national treasure.
This publisher, however, has merely run an Optical Character Recognition program on a scan of the original book done for Google. They warn you of this, both in the description above and on the back of the title page of the book.
I would have been willing to overlook an occasional typo or formatting problem, but this production is pitiful. The title on the cover is not capitalized correctly. Part of the title page has been incorporated into the title of Section 1. The policies and checkout slip for The University of California library have been left at the end of the book. On page 33 (which I chose at random) there are 23 typographical errors including lines split incorrectly and the words "P tl" and "ii11inix(". Page 33 is in Section 2 which is entitled "COUKTSHIP AND MAEEIAGE CUSTOMS".
This lack of even the vestige of a discounted rumor of quality control is particularly irritating since AME quotes diaries and letters from the period with the variant spellings and punctuation common at the time. The lack of effort by the publisher makes the book irritating at best and unreadable in spots.
As a sop to those of us who either purchased the book or were given it as a gift, the publisher kindly gives us access to the original scan for free. But the original scan was done by Google not by the publisher. The truly sad thing is that there are other reprints available that are readable and inexpensive including a complete and searchable text file on line for free.
I consider the money spent on this book wasted except for the knowledge attained that this is a publisher to avoid. I am just amazed that they would have the gall to charge for such a slipshod production.
Loved this old book and details of Old New Englander's food, cloths and rearing children. Did not enjoy how to cook worms.
I bought this without too much thought for my . My doesn't show pictures, or there were no pictures with this book. Pictures would have made it a very good book
This is a very interesting and informative read. Although I'll admit I made a mistake and bought it because I was writing a thesis on Jane Austen and didn't realize the title said "New England" (as in USA).
Still, while there are obviously differences between what happened across the Atlantic Ocean, it is a good read to consider if you have to prepare a paper.
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