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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... Immigrants: The Adaptation of 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 ...
... 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 remove bogus ...
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... immigrant letters, among other first-person sources, to advance a similar disorganization argument in The Uprooted, one of the twentieth century's most significant works in American history.16 Charlotte Erickson's Invisible Immigrants ...
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 |