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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The Personal Correspondence of British Immigrants to North America in the Nineteenth Century David A. Gerber. Authors of Their Lives The Personal Correspondence of British Immigrants to North America in the Nineteenth Century David A ...
... Nineteenth-Century America. Erickson succeeded in making these immigrants anything but invisible. She revealed the worlds within worlds that could be found in their letters, and suggested the world-making functions of correspondence ...
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... nineteenth century, like those recipients more recently, have claimed to be thrilled to see on newly received envelopes, inscribes the writer's unique self; and one can return to the material object of the letter again and again to ...
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 |