Authors of Their Lives: The Personal Correspondence of British Immigrants to North America in the Nineteenth CenturyNYU Press, 2006 - 422 pages 2008 United States Postal System’s Rita Lloyd Moroney Award |
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... Britain for Canada and the United States who form the basis for this work, possessed some literacy skills. Some wrote with considerable technical facility, but most had to strain against significant limitations in their use of written ...
... Britain, and what their aspirations were in resettling in North America. Reviewing these issues helps to establish that many of these immigrants came to North America with permanent resettlement in mind, or, if they held out the ...
... Britain were provided by a variety of well-known short- and long-term considerations, including, in agriculture ... Britain's transformation to modern capitalism. There were certainly those wishing only to escape temporarily an immediate ...
... Britain was eventually possible. Most understood that it might take years to return with enough savings from their New World venture to ensure material independence in Britain, which was the only condition on which they contemplated ...
Table des matières
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3 Writing with a Purpose | 92 |
4 Using Postal Systems | 140 |
5 Establishing Voice Theme and Rhythm | 162 |
6 When Correspondence Wanes | 201 |
7 Thomas Spencer Niblock | 230 |
8 Catherine Grayston Bond | 257 |
9 Mary Ann Wodrow Archbald | 281 |
10 Dr Thomas Steel | 309 |
Abbreviations for Archives and Repositories Consulted | 337 |
Notes | 339 |
Collections of Letters Consulted | 399 |
Index | 403 |