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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... parents too elderly to travel or unwilling to do so, and brothers and sisters who were already well-established in their own lives and who took care of those parents in their old age. We need not romanticize these relationships among ...
... parents; and women, who even when literate were, as immigrants when accompanied by males, often spoken for in correspondence by husbands, fathers, or brothers. Of the seventy-one collections of letters consulted for this study, only ...
... parents, deteriorating marriages, the embarrassment of debt in intimate village trading communities, and restlessness with dependence on family for opportunity and material security—and not solely by the structural push and pull forces ...
... parents.21 They entered the American historical profession to find it overwhelmingly Anglo-American in identity and culture. They encountered an American historiography that, with the exception of broad suggestions found in the work of ...
... parents, and citizens, and to inclusion in the American historical narrative. The New Social History and more recently Multiculturalism have endowed these claims with unprecedented disciplinary legitimacy. In fact, they have been so ...
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 |