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Mary Howitt, Our Cousins in Ohio

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

AvDonald Ingram Ulin,University of Pittsburgh at Bradford) Ulin, Donald Ingram (Professor Emeritus

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This edition offers the complete text of the first published edition of Mary Howitt's Our Cousins in Ohio (1849), based on the letters sent by her immigrant sister in Cincinnati to her family in England. Supplementing the base text are a detailed record of all variants in the first London edition (1849), a critical introduction, explanatory notes, a selection of supplementary materials drawn from contemporary sources, a guide to the historical figures on which Howitt's characters were based and a guide to further scholarship on Howitt. Subjects include the daily activities of the immigrant family, as well as significant historical material, such as slavery, abolition and the persistence of northern racism; the Shakers; Native American boarding schools; the Mexican-American war; and more.

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Utgivningsdatum2025-09-30
Mått156 x 234 x 16 mm
Vikt544 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieEdinburgh Critical Editions of Nineteenth-Century Texts
Antal sidor264
FörlagEdinburgh University Press
ISBN9781399523578

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Donald Ingram Ulin is Professor Emeritus at the University of Pittsburgh in Bradford, Pennsylvania. He has edited Writing Home: A Quaker Immigrant on the Ohio Frontier, the Letters of Emma Botham Alderson (2022). He has also published in Victorian Studies, Victorians Institute Journal, Cultural Critique, Victorian Poetry, the European Journal of American Studies, the European Romantic Review and elsewhere, mostly on changing representations of the English countryside.

List of IllustrationsSeries PrefaceEditor's PrefaceAbbreviationsIntroduction: Narrating Life in a New Land: A Transatlantic Family CollaborationBibliographyFiguresOur Cousins in Ohio (New York, 1849)Summary of Online AppendicesAppendix 1: Emma Alderson’s LettersAppendix 2: Selections from Mary Howitt's Other PublicationsAppendix 3: Emigration Promoted and DiscouragedAppendix 4: Race, Slavery, FreedomAppendix 5: Quakers, Native Americans and Boarding SchoolsAppendix 6: Adventure Narratives and Our Cousins in OhioAfterwordNames DirectoryGuide to Howitt ScholarshipTextual Notes