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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... relationships rendered vulnerable by separation. It is the closest approximation that both parties involved in a correspondence may come to that which they most desire, but cannot obtain—an intimate conversation. It is significant that ...
... relationships. The significant individuals in such relationships hold in common with us both memories of a long shared past and an experience of a place that we have thought of as a homeplace, both a physical location and a center of ...
... relationships are rendered vulnerable by separation, what is threatened is not only a bond between two people, but also the personal continuity that is the ultimate measure of who we are. But relationships are not merely maintained in ...
... relationships that formed the core of the personal identities they took out of their homelands. To sustain those relationships, rich in powerful memories and emotions that fed the immigrant's existential hunger for continuity ...
... relationship the correspondents seek to maintain through corresponding, not their often relatively formless letters ... relationship that uses state postal systems to transcend national boundaries. The relationship they maintain is ...
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 |