Authors of their lives : the personal correspondence of British immigrants to North America in the nineteenth century / / David A. Gerber.
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| Year of Publication: | 2006 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | x, 422 p. :; ill. |
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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.