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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... England from Canada are discussed throughout this study. Wade, a progressive farmer who emigrated in 1845 and joined a branch of his family established by an older brother, settled on a farm in the Port Hope area. He soon became a ...
... England and Scotland, these immigrant letter-writers probably had experienced little contact with the Irish Catholic population resident in Britain, which was urban, so these were first encounters mediated only by folkish prejudices ...
... England and its gloomy climes for one of brilliant sunshine and inspiring purity. I have left the country cowering with doubt and danger, where the rich man trembels and the poor man frowns, where all repine at the present and dread the ...
... overcome technical limitations. Ann Whittaker, who came from England to Illinois with her husband in the 1840s to engage in subsistence farming, slid easily, if erratically and ungrammatically, in the 52 | Traditions of Inquiry.
... England, these linguistic evolutions, which moved English toward a facility in the expression of the nature and the conditions of individuation, were complemented by various social and cultural manifestations of individuation, such as ...
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 |