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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... English and Scottish Immigrants in Nineteenth-Century America. Erickson succeeded in making these immigrants anything but invisible. She revealed the worlds within worlds that could be found in their letters, and suggested the world ...
... English radical democrat William Cobbett, fairly give the game away.14 Contemporaries knew that Cobbett himself, in his habitual outspoken manner, favored immigration to the United States. But in this publication he was supposed to be ...
... English, Scottish, and Irish Protestant immigrants to both Canada and the United States. Of the seventy-one letter-series consulted, forty-three (58 percent) have been produced by English immigrants, twenty-three (31 percent) by Irish ...
... English Kansas farm wife Catherine (Kate) Grayston Bond, and a smaller number of letters from her brother James Grayston, the archived originals were consulted as well as Erickson's edited versions. (This was also done with several ...
... English, and Irish Protestants. Instead they were chosen because of the availability of the letters they authored and the conformity of those letter-series in most cases to the criteria adopted for what sort of texts were useful to ...
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 |