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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... one's actual family and community history of intimate relations. In the ethnic group, immigrants might find new friends and neighbors and a spouse, and begin the reconstruction of personal bonds. At the least, immigrants found people ...
... these forms, such letters all too often served to misinform, for emigration was a passionately debated political issue throughout Europe and North America, and letters might be useful evidence in making one's point, Introduction | 9.
... one's point, pro or con, in the public arena.13 It is not difficult most of the time to detect mischievous editing for political or ideological purposes, but it does require the experience that comes with reading significant numbers of ...
... one's own. To a significant extent, comparisons with Irish Catholics, and to a somewhat lesser extent with French Canadian Catholics, were a basis for these judgments in both Canada and the United States. But judgments were also made ...
... one's most significant interactions to the circle of fellow ethnics. These judgments certainly mock commonsense notions of the ease with which cultural similarities may have led the British to interact effortlessly with Americans ...
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 |