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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Alderson, Emma Botham, 1806-1847 (Autor)
Otros Autores: Ulin, Donald Ingram (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lewisburg, Pennsylvania : Bucknell University Press, 2020.
Temas:
Alderson, Emma Botham, > 1806-1847 > Correspondence.
Alderson, Emma Botham, > 1806-1847 > Family.
Howitt, Mary > (Mary Botham), > 1799-1888 > Correspondence.
Howitt, Mary > (Mary Botham), > 1799-1888
Quaker women > Biography.
Frontier and pioneer life > Ohio.
British Americans > Biography.
Quakeresses > Biographies.
Américains d'origine britannique > Biographies.
British Americans
Families
Frontier and pioneer life
Quaker women
LITERARY COLLECTIONS / General.
Warsaw (Ohio) > Biography.
Ohio
Ohio > Warsaw
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.
Biography
Biographies
Personal correspondence
Biographies.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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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