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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... friend from whom I have learned more than I ever can explain about immigrants and their letters and, through our own correspondence, about letter-writing itself. The original inspiration for this study came with my first reading of ...
... friends in their homelands.1 The great age of European mass international migrations in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was also an era of rapidly proliferating formal primary education and rising popular literacy. Across ...
... friends, to resettle alongside them; and for others, that second project, however large or small a net was cast, took years of patient and painful planning and saving, in the process of which they led a more or less difficult life of ...
... friends and neighbors and a spouse, and begin the reconstruction of personal bonds. At the least, immigrants found people who were experiencing the same history of gain and loss, who shared the same general memories of places and leave ...
... friends; those with completed families; young children living with their parents; and women, who even when literate were, as immigrants when accompanied by males, often spoken for in correspondence by husbands, fathers, or brothers. Of ...
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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 |