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Authors of their lives

by Gerber, David A.,
Additional authors: ebrary, Inc.
Published by : New York University Press, (New York :) Physical details: x, 422 p. : ill.
Subject(s): 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. | Electronic books.
Year: 2006
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.

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