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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... resettlement in North America, eventually put their diaries into letter form when conveying them to their families.3 The diaries could certainly be shared, but they lacked the ability to speak to the intimate bonds both men had with ...
... resettle. Through the study of family, social networks, neighborhood, and ethnic groups, historians of international migration have intensively analyzed these dynamic new or newly reconstituted bonds, the formation of which for ...
... resettlement simultaneously. Still, again and again, readers have to seek out the voice of the absent other, decoding what remains on the surface a one-way conversation, and this necessitates a good deal of guesswork on the reader's ...
... resettlement, occupations, property holding, and ethnicization are analyzed, are not the subjects of this book, which is exclusively concerned with personal correspondence between individuals. Based on seventy-one collections of ...
... resettlement in mind, or, if they held out the possibility of returning to England, Scotland, or Ireland, as many did, they soon came to realize they could not do so and live as well as they were living in North America. In consequence ...
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 |