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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... individuals and institutions, too numerous to mention, facilitated this study. Special mention needs to be made of the ... Individual Identity: The Life of Mary Ann Wodrow Archbald (1768–1840) of Little Cumbrae Island, Scotland and ...
... individual improvement posed by immigration, distance and separation proved a powerful stimulus to the improvement of self-expression. Complementing that challenge was the mastery of the rules of postal systems—the first impersonal ...
... individuals in such relationships hold in common with us both memories of a long shared past and an experience of a place that we have thought of as a homeplace, both a physical location and a center of security, intimacy, and community ...
... individuals to appreciate their significance. After all, some left family because they could not be sustained within the material framework of the domestic economy. In effect, they lived with the knowledge that through no fault of their ...
... individual selves. The concept ethnicity is often asked to bear too many explanatory burdens, and thus crowds out other ways of understanding the consciousness and behavior of individuals labeled “ethnic.”8 Even surrounded by the ethnic ...
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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 |