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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... letter-series respectively, Charlotte Erickson's Invisible Immigrants (1972) and Ronald Wells's Ulster Migration to America (1991), which have set high standards for excellence in the tasks of editing and contextualizing immigrant letters ...
... series of letters written over the course of at least two years. This extended duration facilitates knowledge of ... letter-series published by Erickson that has figured prominently in this book, the letters of the English Kansas farm ...
... letters they authored and the conformity of those letter-series in most cases to the criteria adopted for what sort of texts were useful to sustain the analysis offered in this study. Moreover, individuals are the unit of study, not ...
... letter-series written over a significant length of time to and from Poland, which allow us a degree of familiarity with the letter-writers that we cannot attain from isolated, individual letters. But, as several generations of ...
... letter-writers and their letters. Though the Polish context is developed at ... series of situations, which must be responded to according to their own ... letter-writers, as will be evident throughout this study, was to provide a setting ...
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 |