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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... literacy. Across the lines of social class and region, growing numbers of European immigrants, like those leaving Britain for Canada and the United States who form the basis for this work, possessed some literacy skills. Some wrote with ...
... literate wrote in their behalf); those who sought completely to sever connections with family and friends; those with completed families; young children living with their parents; and women, who even when literate were, as immigrants ...
... literacy. Instead, it might be an artifact of a highly personal and individualized process of retention, collection, and preservation. A fourth difficulty are the problems posed in testing most letters for accuracy and authorial ...
... literacy. The remaining four chapters of Part I lay out a framework for understanding how letters were crafted and conveyed by British correspondents in North America in the nineteenth century, and how their letters worked to achieve ...
... literacy were to be explained by the desire to preserve continuity for the individual through the unity of the family: “to manifest the persistence of familial solidarity in spite of separation.” The 36 | Traditions of Inquiry.
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 |