| Writing Home: A Quaker Immigrant on the Ohio Frontier; The Letters of Emma Botham Alderson Contributor(s): Ulin, Donald Ingram (Editor), Alderson, Emma (Author) |
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ISBN: 1684481961 ISBN-13: 9781684481965 Publisher: Bucknell University Press OUR PRICE: $154.85 Product Type: Hardcover Published: October 2020 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Collections | Letters - History | United States - 19th Century - Religion | Christianity - Quaker |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 2019059111 |
| Physical Information: 1.4" H x 6.2" W x 9.3" (2.02 lbs) 548 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press. |