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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.

Publisher:

New York University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2006

Description:

x, 422 p., [4] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

British Americans--Correspondence.
British--Canada--Correspondence.
Immigrants--Correspondence.
Immigrants--Canada--Correspondence.
Letter writing--History--19th century.
Transnationalism--History--19th century.
Immigrants' writings, American.
United States--History--History--19th century.
Canada--History--History--19th century.
Great Britain--History--History--19th century.

Notes:

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.

ISBN:

9780814731710
9780814731710 (cloth : alk. paper)
0814731716 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)60605151

LCCN:

2005015602

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

KSPG296 -- Burlington Public Library (Burlington)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)