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Colonial Dames and Good Wives

By: Alice Morse Earle
Narrated by: Joseph Tabler
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A Dusty Tomes Audio Book

In Cooperation with Spoken Realms

A Major U.S. Historian Series No. 3

Colonial Dames and Good Wives by Alice Morse Earle published by Houghton Mifflin 1895.

Audio copyright 2023

Note—This book is ‘read as written'. It was published in 1895. It is in the public domain.

Alice Morse Earle’s writings, beginning in 1890, focused on small sociological details rather than grand details, and thus are invaluable for modern social historians.

CONTENTS:

Chapter

I. Consorts and Relicts

II. Women of Affairs

III. “Double-Tongued and Naughty Women"

IV. Boston Neighbors

V. A Fearful Female Travailler

VI. Two Colonial Adventuresses

VII. The Universal Friend

VIII. Eighteenth-Century Manners

IX. Their Amusements and Accomplishments

X. Daughters of Liberty

XI. A Revolutionary Housewife

XII. Fireside Industries

Dusty Tomes Audio Books are public domain books retrieved from the ravages of time. Available as never before, as audio books, for your edification, pleasure, and consideration. Please excuse the dust.

This Dusty Tomes audio book was Read Online at Internet Archive: Archive.org

Public Domain (P)2023 Joseph Tabler Women Marriage
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