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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... Erickson's fine collection and analysis of British immigrant letters, Invisible Immigrants: The Adaptation of English and Scottish Immigrants in Nineteenth-Century America. Erickson succeeded in making these immigrants anything but ...
... Erickson's Invisible Immigrants (1972) and Ronald Wells's Ulster Migration to America (1991), which have set high standards for excellence in the tasks of editing and contextualizing immigrant letters.16 In addition to the efforts to ...
... Erickson's edited versions. (This was also done with several other letter-series found in Erickson's collection, but these are for the most part—with the exception of the letters of the skilled craftsman David Laing—letters of lesser ...
... Erickson has pointed out, British migrants such as these emigrated not because of extremely low living standards, or even of the prospect of an imminent decline in living standards, but because of a desire to avoid unwelcome change ...
... Erickson's Invisible Immigrants (1972), have set high editorial standards in their respect for the integrity of the letters they publish, and provide expert general socioeconomic contextualization.2 But like the collections of the more ...
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 |