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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... Thomas Spencer Niblock: A Dialogue of Respectability and Failure 230 8 Catherine Grayston Bond: Letter-Writing as ... Thomas Steel: The Difficulties of Achieving the Reunited Family 309 Abbreviations for Archives and Repositories ...
... Thomas, and the English housepainter Ernest Lister, whose intentions from the beginning were to stay several years ... Steel, the medical doctor who took up farming on the Wisconsin prairies; or Thomas Spencer Niblock, the ne'er-do-well ...
... Thomas Steel, who were inclined toward liberal Protestantism, disliked what they took to be a strain of insistent intolerance, if not fanaticism, in American evangelical Protestantism, while an Orthodox Calvinist like Henry Johnson felt ...
... Thomas Spencer Niblock, Catherine Bond, Mary Ann Archbald, and Thomas Steel—to Canada and the United States and the relationships embodied in their correspondence. These four chapters may be a departure in tone to the extent that they ...
... Thomas Steel desired vicarious tourism in the form of descriptions of the United States. Moreover, because they had a tentative understanding with Thomas that eventually they would join him in Wisconsin, they wished to know more about ...
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 |