Alice Morse Earle (1851–1911) was an American author and historian known for her extensive writings on colonial American life, customs, and social history. Born on 27 April 1851 in Worcester, Massachusetts, she grew up in a family with deep New England roots, an inheritance that shaped her lifelong interest in early American history and domestic life. Largely self-educated as a historian, Earle worked from old diaries, letters, household records, and surviving artifacts, and became one of the most popular and prolific writers on American colonial history of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Her subject was everyday life — gardens, clothing, children, home furnishings, and social custom — rather than politics or war. Her notable works include The Sabbath in Puritan New England (1891), China Collecting in America (1892), Customs and Fashions in Old New England (1893), Old Time Gardens (1901), and Sun-Dials and Roses of Yesterday (1902). She helped pioneer social history and the study of material culture in America. She died on 16 February 1911 in Hempstead, New York.
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