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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... Letters and Immigrants 1 I Immigrant Epistolarity Introduction 31 1 Traditions of Inquiry 33 2 Forming Selves in Letters 57 3 Writing with a Purpose: Immigrant ... Archives and Repositories Consulted Notes Collections of Letters vii Contents.
The Personal Correspondence of British Immigrants to North America in the Nineteenth Century David A. Gerber. Abbreviations for Archives and Repositories Consulted Notes Collections of Letters Consulted Index About the Author All ...
... Not all immigrants participated in this international exchange of personal letters. Underrepresented or completely absent from the ranks of archived letters written by British immigrants to North America this study analyzes Introduction | ...
... letters in epistolary fiction is just as relevant for conceiving the personal correspondence of historical subjects ... archived letters. We may at times hear the echoes of the voice of the absent correspondent speaking through the ...
... letters: the problem of what letter-writers choose not to write. We expect that writers will have opinions, and ... archived within collections in libraries and other repositories, or in published anthologies of archived letters that ...
Table des matières
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31 | |
33 | |
57 | |
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 |