Writing Home : A Quaker Immigrant on the Ohio Frontier; the Letters of Emma Botham Alderson /

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Writing Home offers readers a firsthand account of the life of Emma Alderson, an otherwise unexceptional English immigrant on the Ohio frontier in mid-nineteenth-century America, who documented the five years preceding her death with astonishing detail and insight. Her convictions as a Quaker offer...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Alderson, Emma (Autor)
Otros Autores: Ulin, Donald Ingram (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lewisburg, PA : Bucknell University Press, [2020]
Temas:
British Americans > Biography.
Frontier and pioneer life > Ohio.
Quaker women > Biography.
LITERARY COLLECTIONS / General.
Emma Alderson, Quakers, epistolary, Ohio, immigration, immigrants, Mary Howitt, nineteenth-century America, transatlantic, American Studies, Women's Studies, Literary Studies, History, Memoir, 19th Century, Christian, Christianity, Religion, Religious, critical, biographical, literary, historical contexts, religious affiliations.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Preface
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • Part I. Leaving Home: The Shenandoah, across the Alleghenies, the First Winter
  • Part II. A Home of Their Own: First Years at Cedar Lodge
  • Part III. The Final Years
  • Epilogue
  • Appendix 1: Physical and Postal Attributes
  • Appendix 2: Directory of Names
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • About the Editor and Author

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