Authors of their lives the personal correspondence of British immigrants to North America in the nineteenth century /
Saved in:
| Main Author: | |
|---|---|
| Corporate Author: | |
| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
New York :
New York University Press,
c2006.
|
| Subjects: | |
| Online Access: | An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view |
| Tags: |
Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
|
Table of 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.