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Writing home : a Quaker Immigrant on the Ohio Frontier, the letters of Emma Botham Alderson /
"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...
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Lewisburg, Pennsylvania :
Bucknell University Press,
2020.
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| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Writing home : |b a Quaker Immigrant on the Ohio Frontier, the letters of Emma Botham Alderson / |c edited by Donald Ingram Ulin. |
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| 520 | |a "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 unique perspectives on racism, slavery, and abolition; the impending war with Mexico; presidential elections; various religious and utopian movements; and the practices of everyday life in a young country. Introductions and notes situate the letters in relation to their critical, biographical, literary, and historical contexts. Editor Donald Ulin discusses the relationship between Alderson's letters and her sister Mary Howitt's Our Cousins in Ohio (1849), a remarkable instance of transatlantic literary collaboration. Writing Home offers an unparalleled opportunity for studying immigrant correspondence due to Alderson's unusually well-documented literary and religious affiliations. The notes and introductions provide background on nearly all the places, individuals, and events mentioned in the letters, "-- |c Provided by publisher | ||
| 505 | 0 | 0 | |t Frontmatter -- |t Contents -- |t Illustrations -- |t Preface -- |t Abbreviations -- |t Introduction -- |t Part I. Leaving Home: The Shenandoah, across the Alleghenies, the First Winter -- |t Part II. A Home of Their Own: First Years at Cedar Lodge -- |t Part III. The Final Years -- |t Epilogue -- |t Appendix 1: Physical and Postal Attributes -- |t Appendix 2: Directory of Names -- |t Notes -- |t Bibliography -- |t Index -- |t About the Editor and Author |
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| 653 | |a 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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