Authors of their lives : the personal correspondence of British immigrants to North America in the nineteenth century / David A. Gerber
| Author(s): | Gerber, David A., 1944- |
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| Subjects: | British Americans--Correspondence British--Canada--Correspondence Immigrants--United States--Correspondence Immigrants--Canada--Correspondence Letter writing--History--19th century Transnationalism--History--19th century--Sources Immigrants' writings, American United States--Emigration and immigration--History--19th century--Sources Canada--Emigration and immigration--History--19th century--Sources Great Britain--Emigration and immigration--History--19th century--Sources |
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| Material Type: | Books |
| Language: | English |
| Audience: | Unspecified |
| Published: | New York : New York University Press, c2006 |
| LC Classification: | E |
| Notes: | LCCN: 2005015602 ISBN: 0814731716 (cloth : alk. paper) EAN: 9780814731710 Includes bibliographical references (p. 339-401) and index Contents: 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 |
| Physical Description: | x, 422 p., [4] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm |
| OCLC Number: | 60605151 |
| ISBN/ISSN: | 0814731716 9780814731710 |