Authors of Their Lives The Personal Correspondence of British Immigrants to North America in the Nineteenth Century

2008 United States Postal System's Rita Lloyd Moroney Award In the era before airplanes and e-mail, how did immigrants keep in touch with loved ones in their homelands, as well as preserve links with pasts that were rooted in places from which they voluntarily left? Regardless of literacy level...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author Gerber, David
Format eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published New York NYU Press 2006
New York University Press
Edition1
Subjects
19th century
British
British Americans
Canada
Correspondence
Emigration and immigration
Europe
Great Britain
HISTORY
Immigrants
Immigrants' writings, American
Letter writing
Sources
Transnationalism
U.S.A
United Kingdom
United States
Writing
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Table of Contents:
  • Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: Letters and Immigrants Part I: Immigrant Epistolarity Introduction 1. Traditions of Inquiry 2. Forming Selves in Letters 3. Writing with a Purpose: Immigrant Epistolarity and the Culture of Emigration 4. Using Postal Systems: Transnational Networks on the Edge of Modernity 5. Establishing Voice, Theme, and Rhythm 6. When Correspondence Wanes Part II: Four Lives in Letters Introduction 7. Thomas Spencer Niblock: A Dialogue of Respectability and Failure 8. Catherine Grayston Bond: Letter-Writing as the Practice of Existential Accounting 9. Mary Ann Wodrow Archbald: Longing for Her “Little Isle” from a Farm in Central New York 10. Dr. Thomas Steel: The Difficulties of Achieving the Reunited Family Abbreviations for Archives and Repositories Consulted Notes Collections of Letters Consulted Index About the Author Cover Frontmatter
  • Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I: Immigrant Epistolarity -- Introduction -- 1. Traditions of Inquiry -- 2. Forming Selves in Letters -- 3. Writing with a Purpose -- 4. Using Postal Systems -- 5. Establishing Voice, Theme, and Rhythm -- 6. When Correspondence Wanes -- Part II: Four Lives in Letters -- Introduction -- 7. Thomas Spencer Niblock -- 8. Catherine Grayston Bond -- 9. Mary Ann Wodrow Archbald -- 10. Dr. Thomas Steel -- Abbreviations for Archives and Repositories Consulted -- Notes -- Collections of Letters Consulted -- Index -- About the Author