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Authors of their lives the personal correspondence of British immigrants to North America in the nineteenth century
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Title
Authors of their lives [electronic resource] : the personal correspondence of British immigrants to North America in the nineteenth century / David A. Gerber.
ISBN
0814733212
9780814733219
0814731716 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780814731710 (cloth : alk. paper)
Published
New York : New York University Press, c2006. (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2012)
Physical Description
1 online resource (x, 422 p. :) ill. ;
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Description based on print version record.
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Variant and related titles
Project MUSE - UPCC 2012 Archival Complete Foundation Collection
Project MUSE - UPCC 2012 Books Archival Subscription Plan
Project MUSE - UPCC 2012 History Foundation Collection
UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
August 13, 2012
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references 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.
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