Emigrants' Letters
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Total Pages | : 158 |
Release | : 1850 |
Genre | : Great Britain |
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Total Pages | : 158 |
Release | : 1850 |
Genre | : Great Britain |
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Author | : John Stillman Wright |
Publisher | : Ann Arbor [Mich.] : University Microfilms |
Total Pages | : 88 |
Release | : 1819 |
Genre | : History |
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"Letters From The West; Or A Caution To Emigrants, written by John S. Wright and published in 1819, presents the impressions of the author about opportunities for settlement in the Ohio Valley. Having just completed a six month trip there, where he had gone "as a plain practical farmer, to judge for myself, the merits of a country so highly extolled," Wright came back profoundly disillusioned. He believed his own experience demonstrated that before any man removed his family to a distant country, he ought first to visit it and judge of it himself. Wright's collection of letters serves as a forceful reminder that not everyone found the West to his liking"--Foreward.
Author | : Raymond Hickey |
Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 301 |
Release | : 2019-11-28 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9027261881 |
The current volume presents a number of chapters which look at informal vernacular letters, written mostly by emigrants to the former colonies of Britain, who settled at these locations in the past few centuries, with a focus on letters from the nineteenth century. Such documents often show features for varieties of English which do not necessarily appear in later sources or which are not attested with the same range or in the same set of grammatical contexts. This has to do with the vernacular nature of the letters, i.e. they were written by speakers who had a lower level of education and whose speech, and hence their written form of language, does not appear to have been guided by considerations of standardness and conformity to external norms of language. Furthermore, the writers of the emigrant letters, examined in the current volume, were very unlikely to have known of, still less have used, manuals of letter writing. Emigrant letters thus provide a valuable source of data in tracing the possible development of features in varieties of English in the USA, Canada, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand.
Author | : Edward Everett Hale |
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Total Pages | : 76 |
Release | : 1852 |
Genre | : Ireland |
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Author | : Edward Everett HALE (the Elder.) |
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Total Pages | : 78 |
Release | : 1852 |
Genre | : Ireland |
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Author | : Sir Henry Parkes |
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Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 1896 |
Genre | : Australia |
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Author | : Johannes Stellingwerff |
Publisher | : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing |
Total Pages | : 742 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780802826688 |
Stellingwerff (Free U. of Amsterdam) and Swierenga (history, Hope College, Holland) present an expanded edition of the original Dutch text published under the title Amsterdamse Emigranten (Buijten & Schipperheijn, 1976). The text features some 215 immigrant letters relating to the midwestern frontier, from archives and private holdings on both side
Author | : William Cobbett |
Publisher | : Applewood Books |
Total Pages | : 174 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1429001321 |
The English politician and writer, who lived in New York for a couple of years, offers a guide to the English family considering a migration. It is a highly technical guide, discussing entirely practical matters. Recommended ports are Philadelphia and Baltimore. Letters are written from a Stephen Watson in Aurora, IN to his English family urging them to come.
Author | : Marcelo J. Borges |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 446 |
Release | : 2019-10-23 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1351361589 |
The migrant letter, whether written by family members, lovers, friends, or others, is a document that continues to attract the attention of scholars and general readers alike. What is it about migrant letters that fascinates us? Is it nostalgia for a distant, yet desired past? Is it the consequence of the eclipse of letter-writing in an age of digital communication technologies? Or is it about the parallels between transnational experiences in previous mass migrations and in the current globalized world, and the centrality of interpersonal relations, mobility, and communication, then and now? Influenced by methodologies from diverse disciplines, the study of migrant letters has developed in myriad directions. Scholars have examined migrant letters through such lenses as identity and self-making, family relations, gender, and emotions. This volume contributes to this discussion by exploring the connection between the practice of letter writing and the emotional, economic, familial, and gendered experiences of men and women separated by migration. It combines theoretical and empirical discussions which illuminate a variety of historical experiences of migrants who built transnational lives as they moved across Europe, Africa, Latin America, and the United States. This volume was originally published as a special issue of The History of Family.
Author | : James Flint |
Publisher | : Edinburgh : Printed for W. & C. Tait, Prince's street ; Londres : Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown |
Total Pages | : 358 |
Release | : 1822 |
Genre | : Ohio River Valley |
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