Authors of their lives : the personal correspondence of British immigrants to North America in the nineteenth century
In the era before airplanes and e-mail, how did immigrants keep in touch with loved ones in their homelands, as well as preserve links? This book analyzes the cycle of correspondence between immigrants and their homelands, paying particular attention to the role played by letters in reformulating relationships made vulnerable by separation.
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x, 422 p., [4] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
9780814731710, 0814731716
1170050873
Traditions of inquiry
Forming selves in letters
Writing with a purpose : immigrant epistolarity and the culture of emigration
Using postal systems : transnational networks on the edge of modernity
Establishing voice, theme, and rhythm
When correspondence wanes
Thomas Spencer Niblock : a dialogue of respectability and failure
Catherine Grayston Bond : letter-writing as the practice of existential accounting
Mary Ann Wodrow Archbald : longing for her "little isle" from a farm in central New York
Dr. Thomas Steel : the difficulties of achieving the reunited family