Authors of their lives [electronic resource] : the personal correspondence of British immigrants to North America in the nineteenth century / David A. Gerber.
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TextPublication details: New York : New York University Press, c2006.Description: x, 422 p. : illSubject(s): - 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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- E184.B7 G47 2006eb
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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