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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.

Publication Info. New York : New York University Press, [2006]
©2006

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Location Call No. Status OPAC Message Public Note Gift Note
 Moore Stacks  E184.B7 G47 2006    Available  ---
Description x, 422 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 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.
Subject British Americans -- Correspondence.
British Americans.
Genre/Form Correspondence.
Subject British -- Canada -- Correspondence.
British.
Canada.
Immigrants -- United States -- Correspondence.
Immigrants.
United States.
Immigrants -- Canada -- Correspondence.
Letter writing -- History -- 19th century.
Letter writing.
History.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject Transnationalism -- History -- 19th century -- Sources.
Transnationalism.
Genre/Form Sources.
Subject United States -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 19th century -- Sources.
Emigration and immigration.
Canada -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 19th century -- Sources.
Great Britain -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 19th century -- Sources.
Great Britain.
Immigrants' writings, American.
Immigrants' writings, American.
Genre/Form Personal correspondence.
Personal correspondence.
ISBN 0814731716 cloth alkaline paper
Standard No. 9780814731710