Born in Worcester, Massachusetts, on April 27, 1851, Mary Alice Morse was educated in her native city and in Boston. She married Henry Earle of New York in April 1874 and lived thereafter in Brooklyn Heights, New York. Her writing career began in 1890, when at the suggestion of her father she wrote an article on old Sabbath customs at her forebears╒ church in Chester, Vermont, for the Youth╒s Companion. The next year an expanded version of the article was published by the Atlantic Monthly, and later in 1891 she published her first book, The Sabbath in Puritan New England, which enjoyed considerable success.
Earle╒s interest in her own family╒s past and in antiques of the colonial period, supplemented by tireless research, provided impetus and material for a great many more articles and books over the next several years: China Collecting in America, 1892, Customs and Fashions in Old New England, 1893, Costume of Colonial Times, 1894, The Life of Margaret Winthrop, 1895, Colonial Dames and Goodwives, 1895, Colonial Days in Old New York, 1896, Curious Punishments of Bygone Days, 1896, Home Life in Colonial Days, 1898, In Old Narragansett: Romances and Realities, 1898, Child Life in Colonial Days, 1899, Stage-Coach and Tavern Days, 1900, Old Time Gardens, 1901, Sun Dials and Roses of Yesterday, 1902, and Two Centuries of Costume in America, 1620╨1820, 1903. In addition she helped compile Early Prose and Verse, 1893, edited the Diary of Anna Green Winslow, a Boston School Girl of 1771, 1894, and contributed to Historic New York, 1897, and Chap-Book Essays, 1897. Her historical research and writing, as the titles of her books indicate, concentrated on the homely details of ordinary everyday life╤manners, customs, handicrafts╤rather than the world of politics and affairs, and her popular exposition of her findings helped spark a renewal of public interest in the American past. In January 1909 she nearly drowned when the ship on which she meant to sail to Egypt was struck by another and wrecked near the Nantucket lightship. Her health failed after that incident, and she died in Hempstead, Long Island, New York, on February 16, 1911.
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