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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... homeland side of correspondence. Then, too, there are those uncountable others—letter-writers whose letters simply were never saved, collected, and preserved—who constitute one of the ultimate frustrations in accounting for the ...
... homeland and the land of resettlement simultaneously. Still, again and again, readers have to seek out the voice of the absent other, decoding what remains on the surface a one-way conversation, and this necessitates a good deal of ...
... homeland, and the person I am now in North America?”18 It is doubtful that these questions were posed directly or consciously, let alone in this particular language, which may rightly strike the reader as having distinctly therapeutic ...
... homeland, with its powerful claims to cultural and political superiority. This need for self-justification grew after the American Revolution, when the choice of the American destination became, in effect, an assertion of ideological ...
... homeland in an 1832 letter to his brothers: I have left England and its gloomy climes for one of brilliant sunshine and inspiring purity. I have left the country cowering with doubt and danger, where the rich man trembels and the poor ...
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 |