TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gerber,David A.
ED  - ebrary, Inc.
TI  - Authors of their lives: the personal correspondence of British immigrants to North America in the nineteenth century 
AV  - E184.B7 G47 2006eb
U1  - 973.5/092/241 22
PY  - 2006///
CY  - New York
PB  - New York University Press
KW  - British Americans
KW  - Correspondence
KW  - British
KW  - Canada
KW  - Immigrants
KW  - United States
KW  - Letter writing
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Transnationalism
KW  - Sources
KW  - Immigrants' writings, American
KW  - Emigration and immigration
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - local
N1  - 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; 2009; Available via World Wide Web; Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries
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