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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... Letters Introduction 227 7 Thomas Spencer Niblock: A Dialogue of Respectability and Failure 230 8 Catherine Grayston Bond: Letter-Writing as the Practice of Existential Accounting 257 9 Mary Ann Wodrow Archbald: Longing for Her “Little ...
... letter-writers whose letters simply were never saved, collected, and preserved—who constitute one of the ultimate frustrations in accounting for the representativeness of any sample of immigrant letters. The problem of who is and is not ...
... letters must somehow be decoded. First, in many instances it is difficult to learn anything beyond the most basic biographical information about either letter-writers or those to whom they wrote, so contextualizing either party in ways ...
... letters: the problem of what letter-writers choose not to write. We expect that writers will have opinions, and explicitly slant their testimonies to make a point. But what is not said, to the extent that it is not even obviously ...
... letters deemed embarrassing to family and inappropriate for the eyes of strangers. The letter-writers themselves, moreover, sometimes destroyed letters in anger or fear of scandal, though this is rarely addressed in their correspondence ...
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 |