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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... 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 Erickson's fine collection and analysis of British immigrant letters ...
... immigrant personal correspondence, it is necessary to understand the limitations of the concept of ethnicity for understanding individual selves ... letters written by British immigrants to North America this study analyzes Introduction | 5.
... letters consulted for this study, only nine (12 percent) are composed of letters exclusively written by women ... immigrant letters. The problem of who is and is not represented in immigrant letters is not the end of the fundamental ...
The Personal Correspondence of British Immigrants to North America in the Nineteenth Century David A. Gerber. unspoken recognition of the necessity of communicating for the sake of maintaining a bond, the typical immigrant letter defies ...
... letters: the problem of what letter-writers choose not to write. We expect that writers will have opinions, and ... immigrant writer, if it were likely to evoke anxiety and worry in the recipient, or if it presented evidence of insurmountable ...
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 |