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1 online resource |
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"Writing Home offers readers a firsthand account of the life of Emma Alderson, an otherwise unexceptional English immigrant on the Ohio frontier in mid-nineteenth-century America, who documented the five years preceding her death with astonishing detail and insight. Her convictions as a Quaker offer unique perspectives on racism, slavery, and abolition; the impending war with Mexico; presidential elections; various religious and utopian movements; and the practices of everyday life in a young country. Introductions and notes situate the letters in relation to their critical, biographical, literary, and historical contexts. Editor Donald Ulin discusses the relationship between Alderson's letters and her sister Mary Howitt's Our Cousins in Ohio (1849), a remarkable instance of transatlantic literary collaboration. Writing Home offers an unparalleled opportunity for studying immigrant correspondence due to Alderson's unusually well-documented literary and religious affiliations. The notes and introductions provide background on nearly all the places, individuals, and events mentioned in the letters,"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Alderson, Emma Botham, 1806-1847 -- Correspondence.
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Alderson, Emma Botham, 1806-1847 -- Family.
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Howitt, Mary (Mary Botham), 1799-1888 -- Correspondence.
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Howitt, Mary (Mary Botham), 1799-1888. |
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Correspondence.
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Quaker women -- Biography.
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Quaker women. |
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Biographies.
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Frontier and pioneer life -- Ohio.
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Frontier and pioneer life. |
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Ohio. |
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British Americans -- Biography.
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British Americans. |
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Warsaw (Ohio) -- Biography.
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Families. |
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Ohio -- Warsaw. |
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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Personal correspondence.
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Personal correspondence.
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Biographies.
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Ulin, Donald Ingram, editor.
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Letters of Emma Botham Alderson |
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Print version: 9781684481965 1684481961 (DLC) 2019059111 (OCoLC)1156444376 |
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9781684482009 (electronic book) |
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1684482003 (electronic book) |
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9781684481965 |
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1684481961 |
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