The Written Record

Botein, Stephen et al., eds. 1977 Experiments in History Teaching. Cambridge : Harvard-Danforth Center for Teaching and Learning.

Felton, Silas 1959 "The Life or Biography of Silas Felton as Written by Himself." Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society 69:119-154.

Livermore, Mary 1899 The Story of My Life Hartford : A. D. Worthington and Company.

Long, Pierce, ed. 1943 From the Journal of Zadoc Long, 1800-1873. Caldwell, ID: The Caxton Printers .

Old Sturbridge Village 1978a Life Cycle: Childhood Sturbridge, MA: Old Sturbridge Village.

1978 b Life Cycle: Courtship and Marriage Sturbridge, MA: Old Sturbridge Village.

1978 c Life Cycle: Youth Sturbridge, MA: Old Sturbridge Village.

Beecher, Lyman. The Autobiography of Lyman Beecher 2 Vols, 1868. Reprint. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1961. Includes information on family life contributed by Beecher's children as well as himself.

Brown, William. The Life of William J. Brown, of Providence, R.I. 1883 Reprint. Freeport, New York: Books for Libraries Press, 1971. Black shoemaker, son of freed slaves, relates family life to race and occupation.

Emery, Sarah Anna. Reminiscences of a Nonagenarian. 1879 Reprint. Bowie, Maryland: Heritage Books, Inc., 1978. Looks back on her early years in Newburyport—family chores, marriage, social activities; and comments on other families in the community.

Felton, Silas. "The Life or Biography of Silas Felton Written by Himself." Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society (October 1959) 69:119-154. Son of successful farmer rejects agriculture and experiences difficult courtship and work decisions before becoming a storekeeper.

Goodrich, S.G. Recollections of a Lifetime 2 Vols. 1857. Reprint. Detroit: Gale Research Company, 1967. When famous for his children's books, Goodrich remembers his childhood and youth including his daily activities, education, family events, and work.

Greeley, Horace. Recollections of a Busy Life New York: J. B. Ford and Co., 1868. Famous editor's early years as the oldest son of a poor farmer.

Larcom, Lucy. A New England Girlhood 1889. Reprint. New York: Corinth Books, 1961. Childhood in Beverly and Lowell remembered fondly.

Livermore, Mary. The Story of My Life Hartford: A. D. Worthington & Co., 1899. Women's rights reformer recalls growing up in Boston and married life with a minister.

Robinson, Harriet. Loom and Spindle, or Life Among the Early Mill Girls. 1898 Reprint. Ifailua, Hawaii: Press Pacifica , 1976. Lowell as seen by a woman who worked there from ages 10 to 23.

Sheldon, Asa G. Life of Asa G. Sheldon: Wilmington Farmer Woburn, Massachusetts : E. T. Moody, 1862 . Hired out at age 6, Sheldon traces the long road to prosperity.

Ayer, Sarah Connell. Diary of Sarah Connell Ayer Portland, Maine: Lefavor-Tower Company, 1910. A women's life in Andover and Newburyport, Massachusetts; Concord and Bow, New Hampshire; Portland and Eastland, Maine.

Bryant, Blanche and Gertrude Baker, eds. The Diaries of Sally and Pamela Brown, 1832-1838 and Hyde Leslie, 1887, Plymouth Notch, Vermont. Springfield, Vermont: The William L. Bryant Foundation, 1970. Brown sisters' youths—social activities, work on family farm, and school teaching.

"Diary of Elizabeth Fuller." In Francis Everett Blake. History of the Town of Princeton Princeton, Massachusetts: Town of Princeton, 1915. Pages 302-323. Youth's activities on family farm.

"Diary of Martha Moore Ballard, 1785 to 1812," in Charles Nash , The History of Augusta Augusta, Maine: Charles E. Nash and Son, 1904. Pages 229-471. Midwife describes her work and the families she serves.

Dow, George Francis, ed. The Holyoke Diaries, 1709-1856. Salem: The Essex Institute, 1911 . Includes diaries from two women in this prominent family in Salem, Massachusetts in the early nineteenth century.

Hazard, Caroline, ed. Nailer Tom's Diary: Otherwise, The Journal of Thomas B. Hazard of Kingstown, Rhode Island 1778 to 1840. Boston: The Merrymount Press, 1930 . Records work in shoes and other trades, social activities, and the growth of his children.

Long, Peirce, ed. From the Journal of Zadoc Long, 1800-1873. Caldwell, Idaho: The Caxton Printers, 1943. Maine. Storekeeper's everyday life, family and household matters.

Bowne, Eliza Southgate. A Girl's Life Eighty Years Ago: Selections from the Letters of Eliza Southgate Bowne New York: Charles Scribner's Son, 1887. Reflective letters home from school in Boston and Medford.

Barnes, Gilbert and Dwight L. Dumond, eds. Letters of Theodore Dwight Weld, Angelina Grimké Weld, and Sarah Grimké, 1822-1844. New York: D. Appleton-Century Co., 1934. Prominent abolitionists write on many subjects.

Leavitt, Thomas, ed. The Hollingworth Letters: Technical Change in the Textile Industry, 1826-1837. Cambridge: M.I.T. Press, 1969. Five sons and their father, immigrants from England, work in the New England textile industry.

Morse, Frances Rollins, ed. Henry and Mary Lee, Letters and Journals. Boston : Thomas Todd Co., 1926. The daily lives and relationship between a Boston merchant and wife.

Tileston, Mary Wilder, ed. Caleb and Mary Wilder Foote: Reminiscences and Letters. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1918. In wide-ranging letters, the wife of a Salem businessmanpolitician describes her social activities, children's development, relationship to her husband and friends, and philosophy of life.

Alcott, Louisa May. Work 1873. Reprint. New York: Schocken Books, Inc., 1977. Young woman's varied work and social experiences.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The House of the Seven Gables. 1852 Reprint. New York : Macmillan Publishing Company, Inc., 1962. A family and a house in the changing world of nineteenth-century Salem, Massachusetts.

Sedgwick, Catharine. A New England Tale New York: E. Bliss and E. White, 1822. Romantic account of an orphan's experiences in several households.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher. Poganuc People: Their Loves and Lives 1878. Reprint. Hartford: The Stowe-Day Foundation, 1977. Fictionalized version of Stowe's childhood in Litchfield, Connecticut.

Alcott, William A. The Young Man's Guide Boston: Perkins and Marvin, 1833.

Beecher, Catharine. Treatise on Domestic Economy 1843. Reprint. New York: Schocken Books, Inc., 1977 .

Child, Lydia Marie. The American Frugal Housewife 1832. Reprint. Columbus : Ohio State University Press, 1979.

Roberts, Robert. The House Servant's Directory 1827. Reprint. Waltham, Massachusetts : Gore Place Society, 1977.