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 |
À l'intérieur du livre
Résultats 1-5 sur 48
... historians of international migration have intensively analyzed these dynamic new or newly reconstituted bonds, the formation of which for immigrants has been an important goal, at times parallel to and at other times intersecting with ...
... historians have access. 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 ...
... historians as “the immigrant letter,” for the letters of the immigrants themselves represent the large majority of archived letters. We may at times hear the echoes of the voice of the absent correspondent speaking through the writer ...
... that have been edited by historians, rather than on letters to be found in private hands, so there is yet another step in the process of retention that is especially relevant here: eventually, one of these 8 | Introduction.
... historians as the problem of the growth and incidence of literacy. Instead, it might be an artifact of a highly personal and individualized process of retention, collection, and preservation. A fourth difficulty are the problems posed ...
Table des matières
29 | |
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 |