Authors of their lives : the personal correspondence of British immigrants to North America in the nineteenth century

Publication Data

• Title Authors of their lives : the personal correspondence of British immigrants to North America in the nineteenth century
• Author David A. Gerber
• Publisher New York University Press
• Publication date 2006
• Publication location New York
• Language English

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.

Topics

• 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
• United States
• Canada
• Great Britain

Authors of their lives : the personal correspondence of British immigrants to North America in the nineteenth century by David A. Gerber. ISBN 9780814731710. Published by New York University Press in 2006. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.