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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... Emigration and immigration— History—19th century—Sources. 8. Canada—Emigration and immigration—History—19th century—Sources. 9. Great Britain— Emigration and immigration—History—19th century—Sources. 10. Immigrants' writings, American ...
... Emigration 92 4 Using Postal Systems: Transnational Networks on the Edge of Modernity 140 5 Establishing Voice, Theme, and Rhythm 162 6 When Correspondence Wanes 201 II Four Lives in Letters Introduction 227 7 Thomas Spencer Niblock: A ...
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... emigration and resettlement, such as the rigors or terrors of the ocean voyage, or the difficulties of finding work might be deemed undesirable by the immigrant writer, if it were likely to evoke anxiety and worry in the recipient, or ...
... emigration. They were intended for publication in newspapers or pamphlets. Or they might be circulated informally, in their original form or through conversation—a sort of vernacular publication for the less educated ordinary folk in ...
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 |