Authors of their lives : the personal correspondence of British immigrants to North America in the nineteenth century

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Title:

Author:

Gerber, David A., 1944-

Personal Author:

Gerber, David A., 1944-

Publication Information:

New York : New York University Press, [2006]

Physical Description:

x, 422 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Language:

English

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.

Subject Term:

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.

British. (OCoLC)fst00839044

British Americans. (OCoLC)fst00839069

Emigration and immigration. (OCoLC)fst00908690

Immigrants. (OCoLC)fst00967712