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Authors of their lives : the personal correspondence of British immigrants to North America in the nineteenth century
- Title
- Authors of their lives : the personal correspondence of British immigrants to North America in the nineteenth century / David A. Gerber.
- Author
- Gerber, David A., 1944-
- Publication
- New York : New York University Press, c2006.
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- Description
- x, 422 p., [4] p. of plates : ill.; 24 cm.
- Subject
- 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
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 339-401) and index.
- 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.
- Call Number
- JFE 06-2160
- ISBN
- 0814731716 (cloth : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2005015602
- 9780814731710
- OCLC
- 60605151
- Author
- Gerber, David A., 1944-
- Title
- Authors of their lives : the personal correspondence of British immigrants to North America in the nineteenth century / David A. Gerber.
- Imprint
- New York : New York University Press, c2006.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 339-401) and index.
- Connect to:
- Other Standard Identifier
- 9780814731710
- Research Call Number
- JFE 06-2160