{"product_id":"writing-home-a-quaker-immigrant-on-the-ohio-frontier-the-letters-of-emma-botham-alderson-hardback-9781684481965","title":"Writing Home; A Quaker Immigrant on the Ohio Frontier; the Letters of Emma Botham Alderson (Hardback) 9781684481965","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eWriting Home\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eA Quaker Immigrant on the Ohio Frontier; the Letters of Emma Botham Alderson\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eDonald Ingram Ulin (Edited by), Emma Alderson (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781684481965\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 16 October 2020\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e548 pages, 34 b-w images\u003cbr\u003e23.5 x 15.6 x 3.8 cm, 0.934 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\"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.\"\u003c\/div\u003e— Quaker Studies\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\"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.\"\u003c\/div\u003e— Paula Feldman, co-editor of The Collected Poetry of Mary Tighe\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\"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.\"\u003c\/div\u003e— Tom Hamm, editor of Quaker Writings: An Anthology, 1650-1920\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\"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.\"\u003c\/div\u003e— Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eWriting Home\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  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 \u003ci\u003eOur Cousins in Ohio\u003c\/i\u003e (1849), a remarkable instance of transatlantic literary collaboration.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003ci\u003eWriting Home\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e Illustrations\u003cbr\u003e Abbreviations\u003cbr\u003e Preface\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e Friends and Family\u003cbr\u003e Final Years in England\u003cbr\u003e Letters, Authorship, and Transnational Modernity\u003cbr\u003e Editorial Practices and Principles\u003cbr\u003e I. Leaving home: the \u003ci\u003eShenandoah\u003c\/i\u003e, across the Alleghenies, the First Winter\u003cbr\u003e Six Weeks at Sea\u003cbr\u003e Across the Alleghenies\u003cbr\u003e American Friends\u003cbr\u003e The Botany of Home\u003cbr\u003e Letters (1842 to 1843)\u003cbr\u003e 1. To Unknown, July 8, 1942\u003cbr\u003e 2. To Ann Botham, August 17, 1842\u003cbr\u003e 3. To Ann Botham and Mary Howitt, September 1842\u003cbr\u003e 4. To Ann Botham and Anna Harrison, October 7, 1842\u003cbr\u003e 5. To Anna Harrison and Daniel Harrison, November 30, 1842\u003cbr\u003e 6. To Ann Botham, January 16, 1843 to February 24, 1843\u003cbr\u003e 7. To Mary Harrison and Margaret Ann Harrison, March 27, 1843\u003cbr\u003e 8. To Ann Botham, April 7, 1843 to April 16, 1843\u003cbr\u003e 9. To Ann Botham, May 16, 1843 to May 28, 1843\u003cbr\u003e II. A Home of their Own: First Years at Cedar Lodge\u003cbr\u003e Pittsburgh to Cincinnati by Steamboat\u003cbr\u003e Landscapes: Beauty and More Botany\u003cbr\u003e Becoming (and Unbecoming) Americans\u003cbr\u003e Family and Friends\u003cbr\u003e Friends and the Great Separations\u003cbr\u003e Letters 1843 to 1845\u003cbr\u003e 10. To Anna Harrison and Daniel Harrison, June 1843\u003cbr\u003e 11. To Ann Botham, July 25, 1843\u003cbr\u003e 12. To Ann Botham, September 6, 1843\u003cbr\u003e 13. To Mary Howitt, October 3, 1843\u003cbr\u003e 14. To Ann Botham, October 29, 1843 to November 14, 1843\u003cbr\u003e 15. To Anna Harrison, November 20, 1843 to December 1, 1843\u003cbr\u003e 16. To Ann Botham, December 31, 1843\u003cbr\u003e 17. To Ann Botham, January 28, 1844 to March 9, 1844\u003cbr\u003e 18. To Ann Botham, April 22, 1844 to May 6, 1844\u003cbr\u003e 19. To Ann Botham, May 19, 1844 to June 14, 1844\u003cbr\u003e 20. To Ann Botham, June 2, 1844 to July 24, 1844\u003cbr\u003e 21. To Anna Harrison, September 2, 1844 to September 13, 1844\u003cbr\u003e 22. To Mary Howitt, October 13, 1844\u003cbr\u003e 23. To Ann Botham, October 24, 1844\u003cbr\u003e 24. To Ann Botham, December 1, 1844 to December 26, 1844\u003cbr\u003e 25. To Mary Howitt, January 20, 1845\u003cbr\u003e 26. To Ann Botham, March 7, 1845 to May 27, 1844\u003cbr\u003e 27. To Ann Botham, April 4, 1845\u003cbr\u003e 28. To Ann Botham, May 21, 1845\u003cbr\u003e 29. To Anna Mary Howitt, June 10, 1845\u003cbr\u003e 30. To Anna Harrison, July 19, 1845\u003cbr\u003e 31. To Ann Botham, September 13, 1845\u003cbr\u003e 32. To Ann Botham, October 1845\u003cbr\u003e 32. To Ann Botham, October 1845\u003cbr\u003e 33. To Ann Botham, October 25, 1845\u003cbr\u003e 34. To Anna Harrison, November 5, 1845\u003cbr\u003e 35. To Ann Botham, November 1845 to December 24, 1845\u003cbr\u003e 36. William Howitt, December 28, 1845\u003cbr\u003e III. The Final Years\u003cbr\u003e Race and Racism in America\u003cbr\u003e Becoming an Author\u003cbr\u003e The End\u003cbr\u003e Letters 1846-1847\u003cbr\u003e 37. To Margaret and Herbert Howitt, January 1, 1846 to January 8, 1846\u003cbr\u003e 38. To Margaret and Herbert Howitt, January 9, 1846 to January 20, 1846\u003cbr\u003e 39. To Mary Howitt, February 15, 1846 to February 21, 1846\u003cbr\u003e 39. To Mary Howitt, February 15, 1846 to February 21, 1846\u003cbr\u003e 40. To Margaret and Herbert Howitt, January 28, 1846 to March 2, 1846\u003cbr\u003e 41. To Ann Botham, March 23, 1846\u003cbr\u003e 42. To Margaret and Herbert Howitt, March 2, 1846 to March 26, 1846\u003cbr\u003e 42. To Margaret and Herbert Howitt, March 2, 1846 to March 26, 1846\u003cbr\u003e 43. To Margaret and Herbert Howitt, April 1, 1846 to April 16, 1846\u003cbr\u003e 44. To Mary Howitt, April 18, 1846 to May 18, 1846\u003cbr\u003e 44. To Mary Howitt, May 1, 1846 to May 18, 1846\u003cbr\u003e 45. To Ann Botham, May 3, 1846 to May 18, 1846\u003cbr\u003e 46. To Mary Howitt, May 14, 1846 to June 14, 1846\u003cbr\u003e 46. To Mary Howitt, May 15, 1846 to June 14, 1846\u003cbr\u003e 47. To Mary Howitt, June 30, 1846 to July 11, 1846\u003cbr\u003e 48. To Anna Harrison, June 26, 1846 to July 15, 1846\u003cbr\u003e 49. To Ann Botham, July 12, 1846\u003cbr\u003e 50. To Mary Howitt, July 13, 1846 to June 27, 1846\u003cbr\u003e 51. To Mary Howitt, August 2, 1846 to August 15, 1846\u003cbr\u003e 52. To Mary Howitt, August 1846 to September 21, 1846\u003cbr\u003e 52. To Mary Howitt, August 1846 to September 21, 1846\u003cbr\u003e 53. To Ann Botham, September 21, 1846\u003cbr\u003e 54. To Ann Botham, September 1846\u003cbr\u003e 55. To Mary Howitt, September 27 1846 to October 20, 1846\u003cbr\u003e 56. To Mary Howitt, October 24, 1846 to November 20, 1846\u003cbr\u003e 56. To Mary Howitt, October 24, 1846 to November 20, 1846\u003cbr\u003e 57. To Anna Harrison, November 1846\u003cbr\u003e 58. To Ann Botham, November 24, 1846\u003cbr\u003e 59. To Ann Botham, December 20, 1846\u003cbr\u003e 60. To Mary Howitt, November 29, 1846 to December 25, 1846\u003cbr\u003e 61. To Mary Howitt, February 2, 1847\u003cbr\u003e 62. To Mary Howitt, February 21, 1847 to October 7, 1847\u003cbr\u003e 63. To Mary Harrison and Margaret Ann Harrison, March 20, 1847\u003cbr\u003e 64. To Ann Botham, March 1847\u003cbr\u003e 65. To Ann Botham, April 10, 1847 to April 20, 1847\u003cbr\u003e 66. To Ann Botham, May 23, 1847\u003cbr\u003e 67. To Ann Botham, June 1847 to July 1847\u003cbr\u003e 68. To Mary Howitt, July 23, 1847\u003cbr\u003e 69. To Mary Howitt and Ann Botham, July 24, 1847\u003cbr\u003e 70. To Anna Harrison, August 24, 1847\u003cbr\u003e 71. To Mary Howitt, October 1847\u003cbr\u003e 72. To Ann Botham, October 9, 1847\u003cbr\u003e 73. To Mary Howitt, November 23, 1847\u003cbr\u003e 74. To Mary Howitt and William Howitt, December 1847\u003cbr\u003e 75. To Ann Botham and William Howitt, December 18, 1847\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue\u003cbr\u003e Cedar Lodge\u003cbr\u003e The Aldersons and their Descendants\u003cbr\u003e The Harrisons and their Descendants\u003cbr\u003e The Howitts and their Descendants\u003cbr\u003e Joseph Taylor and Family\u003cbr\u003e Appendix 1. 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