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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... : Longing for Her “Little Isle” from a Farm in Central New York 281 10 Dr. Thomas Steel: The Difficulties of Achieving the Reunited Family 309 Abbreviations for Archives and Repositories Consulted Notes Collections of Letters vii Contents.
... farm wife Catherine (Kate) Grayston Bond, and a smaller number of letters from her brother James Grayston, the archived originals were consulted as well as Erickson's edited versions. (This was also done with several other letter-series ...
... farm-making, though the means they brought for doing so varied significantly. A number of these immigrants in both ... farming, twelve (17 percent) in traditional skilled crafts (building trades, stone quarrying, mining); eight (11 ...
... farming and reducing craftsmen to wage labor.19 To that extent, they were venturesome conservatives, who hoped to ... farm rent increase; and a few, such as the Scottish textile craftsman John Ronaldson, the English coal miner John ...
... farming in Canada. As Erickson has pointed out, British migrants such as these emigrated not because of extremely low ... farm in Kansas, might also share the yeoman vision.22 What these immigrants were seeking in emigrating was not ...
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 |