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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... live together a source of difficulty and pain, and made immigration far away an attractive proposition. If, however, immigrants had experienced ambivalent relationships and had complex psychologies that developed out of complicated lives ...
... lives that was new and, they believed, unimaginable to others at home, alongside many unanticipated sources of continuity, immigrants often seem to have been compelled to discuss a wide range of phenomena, events, and experiences in the ...
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 |