Authors of their lives
Subtitle: the personal correspondence of British immigrants to North America in the nineteenth century
By: David A. Gerber.
Publisher: New York University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 422
ISBN-13: 9780814731710
Subjects: 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
Genres: Correspondence.; Sources.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Traditions of inquiry; title: Forming selves in letters; title: Writing with a purpose : immigrant epistolarity and the culture of emigration; title: Using postal systems : transnational networks at the edge of modernity; title: Establishing voice, theme, and rhythm; title: When correspondence wanes; title: Thomas Spencer Niblock : a dialogue of respectability and failure; title: Catherine Grayston Bond : letter-writing as the practice of existential accounting; title: Mary Ann Wodrow Archbald : longing for her "little isle" from a farm in central New York; title: Dr. Thomas Steel : the difficulties of achieving the reunited family.