Writing home : a quaker immigrant on the ohio frontier, the letters of emma botham alderson / Emma Botham Alderson, edited by Donald Ingram Ulin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Alderson, Emma Botham, 1806-1847, author.

Contributor:

Ulin, Donald Ingram, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Alderson, Emma Botham, 1806-1847--Correspondence.

Alderson, Emma Botham.

Alderson, Emma Botham, 1806-1847--Family.

Howitt, Mary (Mary Botham), 1799-1888--Correspondence.

Howitt, Mary.

Quaker women--Biography.

Quaker women.

Frontier and pioneer life--Ohio.

Frontier and pioneer life.

British Americans--Biography.

British Americans.

Warsaw (Ohio)--Biography.

Warsaw (Ohio).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (549 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Bucknell University Press

Lewisburg, Pennsylvania : Bucknell University Press, [2020]

Summary:

"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,"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

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

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-68448-200-3

OCLC:

1257324555