Writing Home : : A Quaker Immigrant on the Ohio Frontier; the Letters of Emma Botham Alderson /

Writing Home : : A Quaker Immigrant on the Ohio Frontier; the Letters of Emma Botham Alderson / / Emma Alderson; ed. by Donald Ingram Ulin.

Writing Home offers readers a firsthand account of the life of Emma Alderson, an otherwise unexceptional English immigrant on the Ohio frontier in mid-nineteenth-century America, who documented the five years preceding her death with astonishing detail and insight. Her convictions as a Quaker offer...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Rutgers University Press Complete eBook-Package 2020
VerfasserIn:
Alderson, Emma,
HerausgeberIn:
Ulin, Donald Ingram,
Place / Publishing House:Lewisburg, PA : : Bucknell University Press, , [2020]
©2020
Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (564 p.) :; 34 b-w images
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Preface
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • Part I. Leaving Home: The Shenandoah, across the Alleghenies, the First Winter
  • Part II. A Home of Their Own: First Years at Cedar Lodge
  • Part III. The Final Years
  • Epilogue
  • Appendix 1: Physical and Postal Attributes
  • Appendix 2: Directory of Names
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • About the Editor and Author

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