03803nam 2200793 a 450 991081402510332120240516123948.00-8147-3272-00-8147-3321-21-4294-1413-810.18574/nyu/9780814733219(CKB)1000000000467187(EBL)865491(OCoLC)779828101(SSID)ssj0000107789(PQKBManifestationID)11138530(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000107789(PQKBWorkID)10017231(PQKB)11142304(MiAaPQ)EBC865491(OCoLC)76839018(MdBmJHUP)muse10791(Au-PeEL)EBL865491(CaPaEBR)ebr10137147(DE-B1597)548327(DE-B1597)9780814733219(EXLCZ)99100000000046718720050606d2006 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrAuthors of their lives the personal correspondence of British immigrants to North America in the nineteenth century /David A. Gerber1st ed.New York New York University Pressc20061 online resource (432 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8147-3200-3 0-8147-3171-6 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.2008 United States Postal System's Rita Lloyd Moroney Award. In the era before airplanes and e-mail, how did immigrants keep in touch with loved ones in their homelands, as well as preserve links with pasts that were rooted in places from which they voluntarily left? Regardless of literacy level, they wrote letters, explains David A. Gerber in this path-breaking study of British immigrants to the U.S. and Canada who wrote and received letters during the nineteenth century. Scholars have long used immigrant letters as a lens to examine the experiences of immigrant groups and the communities theBritish AmericansCorrespondenceBritishCanadaCorrespondenceImmigrantsUnited StatesCorrespondenceImmigrantsCanadaCorrespondenceLetter writingHistory19th centuryTransnationalismHistory19th centurySourcesImmigrants' writings, AmericanUnited StatesEmigration and immigrationHistory19th centurySourcesCanadaEmigration and immigrationHistory19th centurySourcesGreat BritainEmigration and immigrationHistory19th centurySourcesBritish AmericansBritishImmigrantsImmigrantsLetter writingHistoryTransnationalismHistoryImmigrants' writings, American.973.5/092/241Gerber David A.1944-1638571MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910814025103321Authors of their lives4063770UNINA