Writing Home

A Quaker Immigrant on the Ohio Frontier; the Letters of Emma Botham Alderson

Inbunden, Engelska, 2020

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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 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.

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Utgivningsdatum2020-10-16
Mått156 x 235 x 38 mm
Vikt934 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor548
FörlagBucknell University Press,U.S.
ISBN9781684481965

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EMMA BOTHAM ALDERSON (1806-1847) was a Quaker woman who immigrated to Ohio from Liverpool, England, in 1842, with her husband and other family members. She was the sister of Mary Howitt, popular poet, translator, and author of books for children and young adults.DONALD INGRAM ULIN is an associate professor and director of English at the University of Pittsburgh at Bradford in Pennsylvania and has published articles on a wide variety of topics, including literary pedagogy, Charles Darwin, film adaptations of Huckleberry Finn, and the nineteenth-century invention of an English countryside.

IllustrationsAbbreviationsPrefaceIntroductionFriends and FamilyFinal Years in EnglandLetters, Authorship, and Transnational ModernityEditorial Practices and PrinciplesI. Leaving home: the Shenandoah, across the Alleghenies, the First WinterSix Weeks at SeaAcross the AllegheniesAmerican FriendsThe Botany of HomeLetters (1842 to 1843)1. To Unknown, July 8, 19422. To Ann Botham, August 17, 18423. To Ann Botham and Mary Howitt, September 18424. To Ann Botham and Anna Harrison, October 7, 18425. To Anna Harrison and Daniel Harrison, November 30, 18426. To Ann Botham, January 16, 1843 to February 24, 18437. To Mary Harrison and Margaret Ann Harrison, March 27, 18438. To Ann Botham, April 7, 1843 to April 16, 18439. To Ann Botham, May 16, 1843 to May 28, 1843II. A Home of their Own: First Years at Cedar LodgePittsburgh to Cincinnati by SteamboatLandscapes: Beauty and More BotanyBecoming (and Unbecoming) AmericansFamily and FriendsFriends and the Great SeparationsLetters 1843 to 184510. To Anna Harrison and Daniel Harrison, June 184311. To Ann Botham, July 25, 184312. To Ann Botham, September 6, 184313. To Mary Howitt, October 3, 184314. To Ann Botham, October 29, 1843 to November 14, 184315. To Anna Harrison, November 20, 1843 to December 1, 184316. To Ann Botham, December 31, 184317. To Ann Botham, January 28, 1844 to March 9, 184418. To Ann Botham, April 22, 1844 to May 6, 184419. To Ann Botham, May 19, 1844 to June 14, 184420. To Ann Botham, June 2, 1844 to July 24, 184421. To Anna Harrison, September 2, 1844 to September 13, 184422. To Mary Howitt, October 13, 184423. To Ann Botham, October 24, 184424. To Ann Botham, December 1, 1844 to December 26, 184425. To Mary Howitt, January 20, 184526. To Ann Botham, March 7, 1845 to May 27, 184427. To Ann Botham, April 4, 184528. To Ann Botham, May 21, 184529. To Anna Mary Howitt, June 10, 184530. To Anna Harrison, July 19, 184531. To Ann Botham, September 13, 184532. To Ann Botham, October 184532. To Ann Botham, October 184533. To Ann Botham, October 25, 184534. To Anna Harrison, November 5, 184535. To Ann Botham, November 1845 to December 24, 184536. William Howitt, December 28, 1845III. The Final YearsRace and Racism in AmericaBecoming an AuthorThe EndLetters 1846-184737. To Margaret and Herbert Howitt, January 1, 1846 to January 8, 184638. To Margaret and Herbert Howitt, January 9, 1846 to January 20, 184639. To Mary Howitt, February 15, 1846 to February 21, 184639. To Mary Howitt, February 15, 1846 to February 21, 184640. To Margaret and Herbert Howitt, January 28, 1846 to March 2, 184641. To Ann Botham, March 23, 184642. To Margaret and Herbert Howitt, March 2, 1846 to March 26, 184642. To Margaret and Herbert Howitt, March 2, 1846 to March 26, 184643. To Margaret and Herbert Howitt, April 1, 1846 to April 16, 184644. To Mary Howitt, April 18, 1846 to May 18, 184644. To Mary Howitt, May 1, 1846 to May 18, 184645. To Ann Botham, May 3, 1846 to May 18, 184646. To Mary Howitt, May 14, 1846 to June 14, 184646. To Mary Howitt, May 15, 1846 to June 14, 184647. To Mary Howitt, June 30, 1846 to July 11, 184648. To Anna Harrison, June 26, 1846 to July 15, 184649. To Ann Botham, July 12, 184650. To Mary Howitt, July 13, 1846 to June 27, 184651. To Mary Howitt, August 2, 1846 to August 15, 184652. To Mary Howitt, August 1846 to September 21, 184652. To Mary Howitt, August 1846 to September 21, 184653. To Ann Botham, September 21, 184654. To Ann Botham, September 184655. To Mary Howitt, September 27 1846 to October 20, 184656. To Mary Howitt, October 24, 1846 to November 20, 184656. To Mary Howitt, October 24, 1846 to November 20, 184657. To Anna Harrison, November 184658. To Ann Botham, November 24, 184659. To Ann Botham, December 20, 184660. To Mary Howitt, November 29, 1846 to December 25, 184661. To Mary Howitt, February 2, 184762. To Mary Howitt, February 21, 1847 to October 7, 184763. To Mary Harrison and Margaret Ann Harrison, March 20, 184764. To Ann Botham, March 184765. To Ann Botham, April 10, 1847 to April 20, 184766. To Ann Botham, May 23, 184767. To Ann Botham, June 1847 to July 184768. To Mary Howitt, July 23, 184769. To Mary Howitt and Ann Botham, July 24, 184770. To Anna Harrison, August 24, 184771. To Mary Howitt, October 184772. To Ann Botham, October 9, 184773. To Mary Howitt, November 23, 184774. To Mary Howitt and William Howitt, December 184775. To Ann Botham and William Howitt, December 18, 1847EpilogueCedar LodgeThe Aldersons and their DescendantsThe Harrisons and their DescendantsThe Howitts and their DescendantsJoseph Taylor and FamilyAppendix 1. Physical and Postal AttributesAppendix 2. Directory of NamesBibliographyIndex

"The letters are a wonderful window into Alderson's experiences...The editorial sections are tremendously insightful and valuable. Ulin has completed a lot of research about all manner of aspects of Alderson's life and context."— Quaker Studies"Emma Botham Alderson, author of this important collection of letters, is an unusually articulate, observant, and skilled writer, who brings to life the courage and ingenuity of America's nineteenth-century English settlers. Such records are of special significance in our own time, when many are sadly unappreciative of the hardships and heartbreak of the immigrant experience. Donald Ulin provides a wealth of well-researched material to help us better understand the text and its historical context."— Paula Feldman, co-editor of The Collected Poetry of Mary Tighe"Emma Botham Alderson, an English Quaker woman setting out on a new life in the United States, was an acute and sensitive observer of life in the Ohio Valley in the 1840s. Her letters to family back in England are filled with observations on everything from landscapes to politics to slavery and antislavery to Quaker peculiarities. We are fortunate that they have survived, and fortunate that they have found such a skilled and thorough editor in Donald Ulin."— Tom Hamm, editor of Quaker Writings: An Anthology, 1650-1920"Bucknell University Press must be highly congratulated for fulfilling so successfully the role of an academic press (no surprise for Bucknell) and not shrinking this volume to a slender market piece. The book contains Ulin's full scholarly apparatus of endnotes, an appendix of the physical and postal attributes of the letters, an appendix of names, a rich bibliography, and a detailed index. Ulin and Bucknell University Press have demonstrated the highest standard of academic publishing. This book is worth every penny and is something to write home about."— Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies